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Standard 1903-1963 - successful Britons

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Created in 2011

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Roger Gloor

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Standard Vanguard (1949)

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Standard Vanguard Phase Ia (1953) - 68 hp, 2088 cm3, 4 cylinders, 1200 kg - at the Swiss Classic British Car Meeting Morges on October 4, 2014

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Standard Ten (1955) - to be brought to Switzerland in larger quantities - Geneva Motor Show 1955

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Standard Eight (1954) - with powerful air opening - Geneva Motor Show 1954

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Standard Eight (1954) - plain and simple, he was

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Standard Vignale Vanguard (1960) - one of the few English cars built by Vignale

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Standard Vanguard (1948) - Advertising from 1948 - AMAG

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Summary

There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. The British brand Standard is also one of these vanished brands. After the war, cars often lacked testing and material quality, including the Standard Vanguard. However, the model range was large and the models sold well.

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It should be noted: After the Second World War, the British were the first to deliver cars again, initially pre-war designs made from mothballed parts and soon new models designed during the war. These often lacked testing and material quality. Typical of this was the modern but immature Standard Vanguard launched in 1948 by Walter Belgrove... The Standard Motor Company, founded in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay, had already reached the first 6-cylinder model in 1905 via 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-cylinder models, all with cardan drive. Standardized bodies did justice to the Standard name. For the 4-cylinder S model of 1912, a 3-year warranty was a novelty. In 1924, over 10,000 cars were produced in the modern Canley assembly plant for the first time.

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