{"id":1090,"date":"2013-02-16T16:41:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T06:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=1090"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:57:01","slug":"barlby-road","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=1090","title":{"rendered":"Barlby Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Note the Talbot crest, which later became the Sunbeam badge under Rootes.<\/center>Barlby Road was the original Talbot factory founded at the turn of the century. All pre-war British Talbots were built here. Under Rootes, all Sunbeam-Talbots were made here too up until the war.<\/p>\n

Today, only the administration building remains. The factory itself has been demolished to make way for a housing estate. After car production ended, the site was used as a television studio for many years.<\/p>\n

Many of the streets through the housing estate are named in honour of the area’s car making heritage. Names like “Rootes Drive”, however, would probably make Roesch Talbot fans cringe!<\/p>\n

The plant is located on the corner of Barlby Road and Rootes Drive, North Kensington.<\/p>\n