This may have already been said, but according to the book "Triumph Sports
Cars" by William Krause, the company was named "Standard" because when it first
began (1903) all the parts used on their cars were interchangeable and thus
'standard.' They shied away from this standardization of parts soon after, but
the name remained.
-Sean
In a message dated 1/18/2004 12:52:26 AM Pacific Standard Time,
dixie4@wales.freeserve.co.uk writes:
Not sure of the term Standard being used by the Standard Motor Co in this
way ( The Standard by which we are judged.) I may have missed something
during this thread so excuse me if I am going over old ground.
I always believed the name Standard was taken from our flag. The Flying
Standard I understand was the flag under which we went to war and we did a
lot of that in years gone by. Look at the size of the British empire on a
map in 1939.
In fact my father had a pre war Flying Standard car, a 1938 I believe. It
had a double Union Jack (Our National flag) mascot in Chrome and enamel on
top of the radiator. This is the Flying Standard Flag. After world war two
the Flying bit was dropped from the name for reasons unknown to me.
Subsequently Standard Triumph was born.
I am sure Jonmac will correct me if I am wrong.
Adrian
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