Standard 8, Redwick, Newport 9 February 2015
This Standard 8 has been here, behind the churchyard for so long, the circular walk starting from Redwick starts "Leave the churchyard by the rear gate, go past the overgrown car..."
The British Standard Company started life in 1903 in Coventry, founded by by Reginald Maudslay. The name Standard was last used in UK in 1963, and in India in 1987. In both world wars, the company produced int. al. famous aircraft such as the Sopwith Pup in WW1 and the Mosquito in WW2. After WW2, they bought out the Triumph Motor Company, running it as a subsidiary. By the late 1950s Standard was flagging and they rebadged some of their models as the Triumph Herald. Standard-Triumph were bought by Leyland Motors in 1960, the Standard badge continuing to 1970; the Triumph brand lasted until 1980.
The post-war Standard 8 was produced from 1953-1959. This appears to be a later one as, for economy, a boot lid was not fitted to earlier models, access being by folding the rear seat in two.
The OMO number is amusing as, in the 1970s, there was a story, probably apocryphal, that some bored army housewives, when their husbands were away, "advertised" themselves by placing a packet of Omo washing powder in the kitchen window to indicate "old man's out".
Standard 8, Redwick, Newport 9 February 2015
This Standard 8 has been here, behind the churchyard for so long, the circular walk starting from Redwick starts "Leave the churchyard by the rear gate, go past the overgrown car..."
The British Standard Company started life in 1903 in Coventry, founded by by Reginald Maudslay. The name Standard was last used in UK in 1963, and in India in 1987. In both world wars, the company produced int. al. famous aircraft such as the Sopwith Pup in WW1 and the Mosquito in WW2. After WW2, they bought out the Triumph Motor Company, running it as a subsidiary. By the late 1950s Standard was flagging and they rebadged some of their models as the Triumph Herald. Standard-Triumph were bought by Leyland Motors in 1960, the Standard badge continuing to 1970; the Triumph brand lasted until 1980.
The post-war Standard 8 was produced from 1953-1959. This appears to be a later one as, for economy, a boot lid was not fitted to earlier models, access being by folding the rear seat in two.
The OMO number is amusing as, in the 1970s, there was a story, probably apocryphal, that some bored army housewives, when their husbands were away, "advertised" themselves by placing a packet of Omo washing powder in the kitchen window to indicate "old man's out".