TALBOT 4,5 L – year 1949

Automobiles Talbot, Suresnes, France.

French Talbot was one of the companies, which did not use compressors to increase the power of their engines.

The basis of the new 4,5 liter engine was a six-cylinder, in-line engine, already tested before the war in the sports version of the Tal bot at the Grand Prix ACF races in 1937 year (first three places). Cylinder diameter engine 93 mm and piston stroke 110 mm had a capacity of cylinders 4485 cm3. The designer was Anthony Lago, former head of Sunbeam. In monolithic, The six-cylinder block featured two lower camshafts, separate from the intake and exhaust valves. The drive was transmitted from the front end of the crankshaft via a system of gears, mounted in seven plain bearings. Double ignition came from two spark gaps. The engine had two fuel pumps and two oil coolers and was powerful 184,0 kW (250 KM) by 5000 RPM.

The driving force was transferred via the clutch and four-speed gearbox to the rear axle. The drive shaft has been moved to the right of the longitudinal axis of the car thanks to the use of an additional gear, also the driver's seat, and therefore the center of gravity of the vehicle, may have been lowered. The rigid driving axle was suspended on the longitudinals, semi-elliptical leaf springs. Rear axle suspension was a combination of hydraulic and friction dampers. On the front axle, the wheels were independently suspended on transverse trapezoidal wishbones, the lower arm of which was a transverse leaf spring. Model of the year 1949 it was also equipped with mechanical rim brakes, but from 1950 Only hydraulic duplex brakes were used in the year. Vehicle overall weight 1120 kg reached the top speed 270 km/h.

Louis Chiron achieved the greatest successes on Talbot, which in 1947 year he won the French Grand Prix in Lyon (125,7 km) i Comminges Grand Prix (126,7 km), with Tal bots taking second and third place as well (Cabantous i Chaboud). W 1949 The year Chiron won his last Grand Prix race on the Talbot. It was his fifth victory at the French Grand Prix circuit, this time in Reims. Louis Rossier also scored points for Tal bot, winning the Belgian Grand Prix (155,1 km/h). Talbot appeared in the first positions back in the early 1950s, but increasing financial problems prevented this excellent French car company from participating in races.