Bill Davies wrote:
> Well as Jonmac quite rightly says, ALL post war Triumphs were really
> Standards, with a less austere sounding company name.
Austere? Perhaps.
I quote from "Triumph Sports Cars" by WG Krause. "The company was founded on
the premise that all
parts for all cars would be interchangeable - hence the name "Standard" unquote.
I also quote from notes written by JR Davy (Standard Triumph's historian, now
dead) of a
conversation between Maudslay and his close company associate, a Mr. Craig in
which Maudslay is
recorded as having said, "I am determined Mr. Craig, that all components will
be made to the highest
possible standard. I shall therefore call my car the Standard car" unquote
It is only (perhaps) through the use/misuse of the English language in many
parts of the world where
the word *standard* (which Maudslay's thoughts might be construed to mean
"oiptimum benchmark
quality, together with his future vision, have become downgraded to mean
ordinary and/or basic. It
is also why Standard cars sold in North America were mostly badged as Triumphs
- and long before the
Standard name was finally abandoned in the UK with the Vanguard Ensign in 1963.
Jonmac
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