About: Standard Vanguard   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/60lEWGn9j3jYtLMno9S96w==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The car was announced in July 1947. It was completely new with no resemblance to the previous models, and was Standard's first post-Second World War car. It was also the first model to carry the new Standard badge, which was a heavily-stylised representation of the wings of a Griffin. The transmission at first was by a three-speed gearbox with synchromesh on all forward ratios. In Scandinavia Standard marketed the Standard Ten saloon as the Vanguard Junior.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Standard Vanguard
rdfs:comment
  • The car was announced in July 1947. It was completely new with no resemblance to the previous models, and was Standard's first post-Second World War car. It was also the first model to carry the new Standard badge, which was a heavily-stylised representation of the wings of a Griffin. The transmission at first was by a three-speed gearbox with synchromesh on all forward ratios. In Scandinavia Standard marketed the Standard Ten saloon as the Vanguard Junior.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:tractors/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Name
  • Standard Vanguard
  • Standard Vanguard Phase I
  • Standard Vanguard Phase II
  • Standard Vanguard Phase III, Sportsman and Ensign
  • Standard Vanguard Six
  • Standard Vanguard Vignale
Caption
  • Phase 1A Standard Vanguard
  • Standard Vanguard Station Wagon 1954
Production
  • 1947(xsd:integer)
  • 1953(xsd:integer)
  • 1955(xsd:integer)
  • 1958(xsd:integer)
  • 1960(xsd:integer)
  • 9953(xsd:integer)
  • 26267(xsd:integer)
  • 37194(xsd:integer)
  • 81074(xsd:integer)
  • 174799(xsd:integer)
body style
  • saloon, estate car
  • saloon, estate car,
  • utility
Manufacturer
Successor
Engine
  • 1670(xsd:integer)
  • 1991(xsd:integer)
  • 2088(xsd:integer)
  • 2092(xsd:integer)
transmission
  • automatic
  • Four speed manual
  • Overdrive optional
  • Overdrive optional from 1950.
  • Overdrive optional.
  • Three or four-speed manual
  • Three speed manual
  • automatic from 1957.
Designer
  • Giovanni Michelotti
Predecessor
  • none
abstract
  • The car was announced in July 1947. It was completely new with no resemblance to the previous models, and was Standard's first post-Second World War car. It was also the first model to carry the new Standard badge, which was a heavily-stylised representation of the wings of a Griffin. In the wake of the Second World War many potential customers in the UK and in English-speaking export markets had recently experienced several years of military or naval service, therefore a car name related to the British Navy carried a greater resonance than it would for later generations. The name of the Standard Vanguard recalled HMS Vanguard, the last of the British Navy's battleships, launched in 1944 amid much media attention: permission to use the name involved Standard in extensive negotiations with senior Royal Navy personnel. The styling of the car resembled the pre-war Plymouth with a sloping "beetle-back". Russian media claimed that styling of this car had been in part influenced by Russian GAZ-M20 Pobeda, which had been in development from 1943 and went into production in 1946. In 1952 The Motor magazine stated that the Soviet Pobeda "shows a certain exterior resemblance to the Standard Vanguard", disregarding the fact that the Pobeda had been launched a year before the Vanguard. The same wet liner engine was used throughout the range until the advent of the Six model in 1960 and was an overhead valve unit of mm (in) bore and mm (in) stroke with single Solex downdraught carburettor. The compression ratio was 6.7:1 on early engines increasing to 7.0:1 on the Phase III and 8.0:1 on the Sportsman. Wet cylinder liners were fitted. The engine was very similar to the ones made by Standard for the Ferguson tractor that they were making in large numbers. The transmission at first was by a three-speed gearbox with synchromesh on all forward ratios. In Scandinavia Standard marketed the Standard Ten saloon as the Vanguard Junior.
is Predecessor of
is wikipage disambiguates of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software