This photo shows the visit of the then Crown Prince Hirohito’s visit to the Standard Motor Works in around the early to mid 1920’s*. Continue reading “Arthur Frost – and Hirohito”
Something new for March – something new every single day.
Check the website at 9am every day throughout March for a new bio, new photo, new record, something, we think, you never knew about the Standard Triumph Company. Continue reading “Something new for March – something new every single day.”
Reg Stuart – Spares Stores
REG STUART aged 72, retired from casemaking in Spares Stores after 22 years with our Company. Reg had spent his lifetime in the car and aero industry at Coventry. Continue reading “Reg Stuart – Spares Stores”
Albert Edward Smith
When the 83,139th and last Standard Eight rolled off the production line at Canley on Friday 9th July 1948, it wasn’t sold or given to a museum.
Factory – Winter, Can You Date This Photo?
Another fabulous photograph – with the new Assembly Hall in the distance.
Continue reading “Factory – Winter, Can You Date This Photo?”
Tom Carss
Tom joined as a car body builder around 1920ish. He was foreman by the 1939 census and then probably in body design in the drawing office. Continue reading “Tom Carss”