MODEL HISTORY
Talbot-Lago first used the 'Baby' name on a range of six-cylinder models during the 1930s and revived it following the Second World War. With the T26C proving to be a winner in Grand Prix racing and at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and the expensive 4.5-litre T26 acting as its flagship road car, the four-cylinder T15 'Baby' was intended to 'meet the demands of a large number of customers looking for a classy car with medium power [and] easy and inexpensive maintenance' while still 'possessing to the highest degree the traditional qualities of the brand'.
This was nonetheless an expensive car produced in relatively small numbers and, with various options on offer, very few T15s are exactly the same. Its 2.7-litre twin-cam engine produced 120bhp and there was the choice of a four-speed synchromesh gearbox or a Wilson pre-selector. The independent front suspension employed coil springs, while semi-elliptic leaf springs and hydraulic dampers were used at the rear.
Talbot-Lago claimed that the T15 'Baby' was the 'fastest, most pleasant to drive and safest' car in its class, but production of all models at the Suresnes factory fell sharply after reaching 433 in 1950, and the last T15 'Baby' was built in 1953. The post-war landscape was very different to the 1930s and, like a number of famous top-end marques, Talbot-Lago struggled through the 1950s - especially in a French market that heavily taxed large-engined cars.
Owner Antonio Lago - who had acquired the rights to the French Talbot business in the mid-1930s following the collapse of the Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq combine - put the company up for sale in 1958 and the following year it was acquired by Simca. More than 60 years later, Talbot-Lago remains an evocative name thanks to its impressive engineering, extravagantly styled road cars and international motor racing success.
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