Found in a dilapidated condition in 1930, this car was rescued by Ewart Bradshaw, a motor tycoon who owned a chain of garages in Preston, and was eventually restored in 1958.

Established in Coventry in 1903, the Standard Motor Company’s name was chosen to reflect its dependable and reliable vehicles to the best standard. In the early-twentieth century the cars were often named after places around the UK including Teignmouth, Rhyl and more local settlements like Wellesborne and Charlecote. The distinctive Union Flag badge was added to the familiar shouldered radiator in 1908.

The four-cylinder 20hp design that is on display was only produced in 1913 and 1914. Unusually for the time, the conventional chassis had tiny helper coil springs at the extremities of the rear leaf springs which acted more as dampers than as auxiliary load-bearers. The large engine was a monobloc casting but with old-fashioned thermo-syphon cooling.

After it was restored at the Kendal premises of Loxhams Garages, the chain of garages which Bradshaw founded, this car was reacquired by Standard-Triumph in 1965 and eventually joined the Museum’s collection.