1929 Talbot 14/45 Doctor's Coupe
No Reserve

Registration No: Unregistered
Chassis No: 25234
MOT: Exempt

• Formerly UK registered as 'GU 7896' and understood to have had its engine overhauled by F.G. Wade Palmer's famous Jack O' Lantern garage post WW2 (late 1950s / early 1960s)
• Purchased from Londoner Ryan Faulkener by Hanns Geigenberger during 1968 and resident in Germany and Austria until entering the current family ownership some forty-six years later
• History file includes assorted old German registration documents and STD Register Members' Lists

Introduced in 1926, the 14/45 was notable as the first Talbot to be designed by the brilliant Georges Roesch. Benchmarked against the Rolls-Royce 20hp despite having an engine half the size, the newcomer’s highly efficient 1665cc straight-six OHV powerplant was notably free revving. Developing some 46bhp @ 4,500rpm and allied to four-speed manual transmission, it endowed the 14/45 with a respectable 65mph top speed. Underpinned by a conventional ladder frame chassis equipped with all-round semi-elliptic leaf-sprung suspension and four-wheel drum brakes, the Talbot could be had with a range of open and closed coachwork. Among the more expensive options, the Doctor’s Coupe incorporated wind-up windows and a well-insulated hood (though, passengers in the Dickey Seat rode exposed to the elements). The 14/45 and its 65 successor were the bedrock upon which Talbot rebuilt itself achieving nigh on 11,000 sales between them.

Reportedly first registered in London as ‘GU 7896’ on 29^th April 1929, this rare, surviving Doctor’s Coupe is further understood to have had its engine overhauled by F.G. Wade-Palmer’s Jack O’ Lantern garage near Romsey, Hampshire during the 1960s. Belonging to Londoner Ryan Faulkner when Hans Otto Geigenberger purchased it in 1968, the Talbot relocated to Munich, Germany. Seemingly used for various events on the Continent – a surviving period photos shows it on the Allgemeiner Schnauferl Club’s Rally Antika – the Two-Seater with Dickey was bought by Rolf Ottman of the Hotel Alpinum, Mittleberg in 1972 and Gerhard Werner of Graz, Austria some seventeen years later. Entering the current family ownership during 2014, the Doctor’s Coupe has yet to be re-registered in the UK. Dry stored for the last several years, the Talbot will require recommissioning prior to road use. Accompanying paperwork includes an original 14/45 handbook, expired German and Austrian registration documents and assorted STD Register literature.