{"id":1354,"date":"2013-03-31T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T06:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:53:29","slug":"the-sunbeam-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"The Sunbeam lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;m asked about the lion logo used used on Rootes-era Sunbeams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbeam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1352\" alt=\"Sunbeam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbeam.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbeam.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sunbeam-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was originally the logo of Clement-Talbot Ltd, the manufacturer of Talbot cars. Talbot was founded in 1903 with the backing of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 20th Earl of Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/talbot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1358\" alt=\"talbot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/talbot.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This crest is a heraldic emblem appearing on many coats of arms. In heraldic terms it is generally described as &#8220;o<i>n a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, a lion statant with the tail extended&#8221; <\/i>which essentially means on a red cap trimmed in ermine, a lion stands with tail extended.<\/p>\n<p>It was chosen because it features on the Earl of Shrewsbury&#8217;s coat of arms. You can see it below in the top left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/coatarms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1353\" alt=\"coatarms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/coatarms.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/coatarms.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/coatarms-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The coat of arms is supported by two talbot hounds. A talbot was a breed of hunting dog that is now extinct. Some texts state that the animal featured in the Sunbeam logo is actually a talbot, but as can be seen here the talbots are quite distinct from the lion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;m asked about the lion logo used used on Rootes-era Sunbeams. This was originally the logo of Clement-Talbot Ltd, the manufacturer of Talbot cars. Talbot was founded in 1903 with the backing of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 20th Earl of Shrewsbury. This crest is a heraldic emblem appearing on many coats of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?p=1354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sunbeam lion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ptz4-lQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}