Georges Roesch
Encyclopedia
Roesch, Georges was a Swiss-born automotive engineer. At 25, he was hired by the London firm of Clément-Talbot in 1916 as Chief Engineer. In 1919 Talbot
was acquired by Darracq
, and the following year the resulting combination merged with Sunbeam to form Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq Motors (STD).
Between 1920 and 1925 Roesch worked with STD under Louis Coatalen
to develop a six cylinder push-rod engine of striking simplicity and efficiency.
The first successful post war model was a Georges Roesch designed six cylinder high speed tourer released in 1927. From that point forward all Roesch cars sold well including the 1936 Talbot 110 Speed Tourer, after the Rootes Group took over Talbot in 1935. The first Rootes Sunbeam, named the Thirty, designed by Georges Roesch, was propelled with a new 4503 cc straight eight engine. This golden era of Georges Roesch, however, ended soon with the financial collapse, in February 1935, of the Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq business.
in his house because he found none of the existing vacuum cleaner designs satisfactory.
Talbot
Talbot was an automobile marque that existed from 1903 to 1986, with a hiatus from 1960 to 1978, under a number of different owners, latterly under Peugeot...
was acquired by Darracq
Darracq
Automobiles Darracq S.A. was a French motor vehicle manufacturing company founded in 1896 by Alexandre Darracq.Using part of the substantial profit he had made from selling his Gladiator bicycle factory, Alexandre Darracq began operating from a plant in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes...
, and the following year the resulting combination merged with Sunbeam to form Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq Motors (STD).
Between 1920 and 1925 Roesch worked with STD under Louis Coatalen
Louis Coatalen
Louis Hervé Coatalen was a Breton automobile engineer.Coatalen was born in the Breton fishing town of Concarneau and went on to study engineering at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers at Cluny ....
to develop a six cylinder push-rod engine of striking simplicity and efficiency.
The first successful post war model was a Georges Roesch designed six cylinder high speed tourer released in 1927. From that point forward all Roesch cars sold well including the 1936 Talbot 110 Speed Tourer, after the Rootes Group took over Talbot in 1935. The first Rootes Sunbeam, named the Thirty, designed by Georges Roesch, was propelled with a new 4503 cc straight eight engine. This golden era of Georges Roesch, however, ended soon with the financial collapse, in February 1935, of the Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq business.
Character
An insight into the irascible perfectionism of Roesch may be gained from the report that he refused ever to have a vacuum cleanerVacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner, commonly referred to as a "vacuum," is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and optionally from other surfaces as well. The dirt is collected by either a dustbag or a cyclone for later disposal...
in his house because he found none of the existing vacuum cleaner designs satisfactory.
External links
- http://sunbeam.org.uk/Talbot.htm
- http://vea.qc.ca/vea/marques1/talboteng.htm
- http://www.talbotownersclub.co.uk