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1926 Standard SL04 Saloon

United Kingdom • 25 Feb 2020

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This 1926 Standard Park Lane Saloon is presented in very good condition, benefiting from a prior major restoration and recent limited use. It features a high-specification interior and comes with a substantial amount of historical paperwork, including being featured in a book about Standard Motor Company.

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The car is described as being in very good condition by the vendor and was running well when put into storage a few years ago. The interior is in amazing condition and is a very high specification. It has had a major restoration at some point and has seen little use since.

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The Standard Motor Company Limited was a motor vehicle manufacturer, founded in Coventry, England, in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay.

It purchased Triumph in 1945 and in 1959 officially changed its name to Standard-Triumph International and began to put the Triumph brandname on all its products.

In the early 1920s saloon bodies were first offered; previously all cars had been tourers.

The bodies had, since the move to Bishopsgate Green, been made in Coventry by the company itself, but it was not until 1922 that they were mass-produced, using a wooden track along which they were pushed by hand.

The company was justifiably proud of the modern factory at Canley, boasting in its advertisements "It is a beautifully lighted and well-aired factory standing on the edge of a breezy common away from the city din and smoke, that the finishing touches and test are given to the All British 'Standard' Light cars which issue there to almost every quarter in the world".

It was about this time d...