Description Lovely low mileage example; older repaint still in very presentable order; highly original example; with the first owner for 70 years! First registered in October 1937 and showing only five keepers on the current V5C, having been with the current owner since 2021 and the previous owner for 70 years.

If you were launching a new make of car today you might think twice about calling it 'average' but back in 1903 the word Standard had very different connotations – a height to be maintained, a flag to be flown.

True, there was nothing fancy about the brand RW Maudslay established in 1903, but his Coventry-based firm proved so successful at turning out durable, well-engineered machines at modest cost that they were soon among the top six manufacturers in the UK.

Inexpensive though they were, the quality was never in doubt, a fact not lost on William Lyons who seized on the excellent Standard Nine of 1928 and clothed it in his own Swallow body to lay the foundations of what wou...