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Craner classics if offering this rather charming little Standard Ten beautifully restored to a very high standard. The little car has blemish free paintwork a very sharp example indeed comes with a very stunning two tone interior and superb roof lining the car has just had new front trunnions fitted and joints its mot till 1-5-2025 and comes with a lovely history file with all the old vintage standard 8 booklets. it starts first turn of the key with cracking little engine and gearbox a very good example of this little car and very rarely seen in this condition.
The Standard Ten was a model name given to several small cars produced by the British Standard Motor Company between 1906 and 1961. The name was a reference to the car’s fiscal horsepower or tax horsepower, a function of the surface area of the pistons. This system quickly became obsolete as an estimate of the power produced by the engine, but it continued to be relevant as a way to classify cars for tax purposes. Like other manufacturers, Standard continued to use the name to define the approximate size of their ‘Ten’ model long after the origins of the name had, in Britain, become inapplicable.
An experimental two-cylinder “10” was made in 1906, after which Standard’s next car in that category was a four-cylinder 9.5 tax horsepower built between 1914 and 1919. They returned to the 10 tax horsepower market in 1934; this model was replaced in 1937 by a “Flying Ten” that lasted until the outbreak of World War II.
Standard again returned to the 10 tax horsepower market in 1954 with another Ten, which was supplemented in 1957 by an up-market version called the Pennant. The Ten and the Pennant were replaced by the Triumph Herald in 1961.
