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The 2 pictures of the insignia are accurate for Standard. Both the book insignia that we all recognize and the Roman Standard insignia.
[/ QUOTE ]Correct, but the "book" insignia is 1950s. So it might be appropriate to the era during which the car was built, which I would imagine to be somewhere in the 1950s. Or it could have been added at any time after the car was built.
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Very interesting at any rate.
[/ QUOTE ]Agreed, as possibly a reasonably well-built "special"!
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Do you think it may be built on the 4/8 tourer chassis?
[/ QUOTE ]That seems to be the consensus amongst SMC folks. The wheels certainly look like the old Standard 8 type, as do the hubcaps in another picture. Whether it's prewar or postwar is hard to say, but one SMC member has noted that the commission number fits in around 1939.
Given the, er, uniqueness, condition and (in)completeness(?) of this car, one has to wonder if the profiteer will indeed profit.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif