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If I had room, time, $! FS: '47 Standard Flying 14

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Hmmm...could be a very nice car when done. FWIW, technically it's NOT a "Flying" Standard (that term was used only on the pre-WWII Standards), and technically Standard didn't really become Triumph; they bought little more than the Triumph name at the end of WWII. Yes, ultimately the name Standard was dropped, so maybe that's what he was thinking.

No matter; I'd love a car like that myself. Fortunately, it's 3000 miles away, since I've too many projects now.
 
In England the name "Standard" meant that it was the standard to which all other cars were compared. The top of the line. The flag (Union Jack) was the standard, as in "the ship flew the standard from the highest mast". This is the original meaning of the word standard in general. In the 1950s in North America, if a car was the standard model it was the lower cost model without any of the luxuries or options. If you wanted these extras, you bought the deluxe model of car. So Standard-Triumph introduced their cars here as the Triumph because of the negative image here of the standard model.
 
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