Year Last known 1969
fripp 1963
DONNE
UK
VDP Book
In a Canadian motor museum Nov 2018
per J Fack:
The car's chassis-number was 4503 - making it only the third BG 110 to
> have been laid-down. It was then bodied by Vanden Plas, and despatched
> by them in November 1935 - so there's an argument for saying that it's
> a 1935 car, rather than a 1936 one. On the other hand, CXH was a
> London County Council registration of April 1936 - so take your pick!
>
> CXH is such a special car that I might - just might! - be the only
> person in the whole of the Talbot Owners Club who could tell you
> exactly what she is: so much so, that I've long considered making her
> the subject of a quiz in the club magazine, under the title 'Exactly
> which model of Talbot is this?'
>
> In theory, she's a bog-standard BG 110 Vanden Plas tourer. In
> practice, however, a former owner called Laurence Hobbs
> retro-converted her front-end to resemble that of a more typical
> Roesch Talbot, like my own contemporaneous BI 105 saloon. This
> involved fitting her with a vertical rather than a sloping
> radiator-shell; a single exposed lamp-bar rather than two half-bars;
> and exposed bracing-struts in chrome-plate rather than hidden ones in
> black paint.
>
> I'm not an admirer of her 'butterscotch & cream' paintwork - she was
> originally black, by the way - or her long-trumpet horns and
> centrally-mounted spot-lamp. She's already got a pair of headlamps and
> a pair of spotlamps, so all the rest just clutters-up one of the most
> handsome & distinguished frontal appearances of any British car -
> which is exactly why Laurence Hobbs retro-converted her, of course!
>
In the Canadian Automotive Museum, Oshawa Ontario
Donated by a MR James Allward
Flikr 2017
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