Flying Standard in the metal
JD Wetherspoon commemorates the Standard Motor Company in "The Flying Standard" name of its pub in Broadgate, Coventry. The pub sign depicts a Standard 8 model. Here at the Sussex Showground at Ardingly is a Flying Standard in the metal - what I think is the slightly larger 10 model.
APM456 is a Sussex-issue number plate, of 1936 - the year the Flying Standard range was unveiled. Their hallmark was a very avant garde for its day streamlined "waterfall" grill. This made contemporary Austin, Morris and Ford models look very staid by comparison. But nothing fades faster than fashion, and I remember thinking how very dated those Flying Standards that were still on the roads in the late 1950s looked.
Flying Standard in the metal
JD Wetherspoon commemorates the Standard Motor Company in "The Flying Standard" name of its pub in Broadgate, Coventry. The pub sign depicts a Standard 8 model. Here at the Sussex Showground at Ardingly is a Flying Standard in the metal - what I think is the slightly larger 10 model.
APM456 is a Sussex-issue number plate, of 1936 - the year the Flying Standard range was unveiled. Their hallmark was a very avant garde for its day streamlined "waterfall" grill. This made contemporary Austin, Morris and Ford models look very staid by comparison. But nothing fades faster than fashion, and I remember thinking how very dated those Flying Standards that were still on the roads in the late 1950s looked.