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Cars of the Standard Motor Company
Phil Homer
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Description for Cars of the Standard Motor Company
Paperback. A concise history of one of the biggest manufacturing companies in Coventry and owners of Triumph. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; KNDR; WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165. .
The Standard Motor Company grew to be one of the biggest companies in Coventry and employed some 11,000 people at its height. Based at its huge factory at Canley, Coventry, it produced cars for sixty years. The purchase of the Triumph marque in 1945 added a second brand to the stable and all post-war Triumphs were designed, developed and built in Standard factories. This book covers the formative years of the company from 1903 to 1912 and describes the vintage Standards produced between 1913 and 1930, as well as the post-vintage and Flying Standards of 1931-1939. The ... Read more
The Standard Motor Company grew to be one of the biggest companies in Coventry and employed some 11,000 people at its height. Based at its huge factory at Canley, Coventry, it produced cars for sixty years. The purchase of the Triumph marque in 1945 added a second brand to the stable and all post-war Triumphs were designed, developed and built in Standard factories. This book covers the formative years of the company from 1903 to 1912 and describes the vintage Standards produced between 1913 and 1930, as well as the post-vintage and Flying Standards of 1931-1939. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445652276
SKU
V9781445652276
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Phil Homer
Phil Homer is the Vice-Chairman and Historian of the Standard Motor Club, an organisation dedicated to the preservation of all Standard cars and derivatives such as Avon, Railton and SS. He has thirty-five years' experience of the marque, has owned numerous models and his current fleet ranges from 1919 through to 1956. He has had several illustrated features published in ... Read more
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