Rootes Group
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The Rootes Group was a British automobile manufacturer and, separately, a major motor distributors and dealers business. From headquarters in the West End of London, the manufacturer was based in the
The Rootes Maidstone on Mill Street, Rootes' factory building c. 1948
Founder William Rootes
Hillman 14
Humber 16–60
Talbot
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Talbot is a dormant automobile marque introduced in 1902 by British-French company Clément-Talbot. The founders, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury and Adolphe Clément-Bayard, reduced th
Rootes Group
…financial support of Prudential Assurance, the two brothers bought many well-known British motor manufacturers—including Hillman, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam, Talbot, Commer and Karrier. At its height in 1960, Rootes Group had manufacturing plants in the Midlands at Coventry and Birmingham, in southern England at…
Adolphus Verey (c. 1911) Gentlemen's Motoring Party in a Talbot outside Duggan's Livery Stables, Castlemaine, Victoria
1950 Lago T26 Grand Sport
1978 Horizon saloon
1983 Solara SX