Description
This is lot number 511 in the Bonhams Beaulieu Sale on September 14th, please see the Bonhams website for full details.
Delivered new to Australia
An older restoration
Returned to the UK in 2019
Subsequently recommissioned
Magneto overhauled
Standard's models produced in the 1920s were named after English towns: not just those local to the factory such as Canley, Kenilworth, Warwick, and Coventry, but some much further afield, e. g. Teignmouth, Falmouth, and Exmouth. Their trademark was a distinctive shouldered radiator adorned with the Union Jack badge, which they had adopted in 1908.
This 1926 Standard V3 Coventry Tourer was exported new to Australia. Export vehicles, such as those going to Australia, were fitted with a fan, while other differences included traffic indicators and two brake lights. There are some early photographs of the car taken in Australia. The four-seater body is of the English touring style, with a roof that retracts fully.
The Tourer was powered by Standard's 11. 4hp, four-cylinder overhead-valve engine featuring exposed pushrods and rockers, Zenith carburettor, Lucas magneto ignition, and a 6-volt generator. It is believed that this example was professionally restored for Australias Bi-Centenary Celebration Rally of 1988, and that it completed the full distance.
The Standard was repatriated to the UK from Australia in 2019. Cranmore GT Limited of Wythall in the West Midlands carried out work to recover from storage and then recommission. The engine had not been running due to the faulty magneto, so the latter was tested, refurbished, rebuilt and refitted. The timing was then re-set. There is an invoice on file for circa £700 dating from April 2022 together with a copy owners manual and the magneto overhaul invoice. The car has also had the radiator overhauled, and comes with a good quantity of paperwork, as well as attendance badges and numbers from events completed in Australia.
