Standard Flying Nine

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Standard Flying Nine
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Overview
Manufacturer Standard Motor Company
Production1936-1940
Body and chassis
Body style 2-door saloon
Powertrain
Engine 1,131 cc Nine sv I4 [1]
Transmission Four speed manual with synchromesh
Dimensions
Wheelbase 85 in (2,159 mm) [1]
Length139 in (3,531 mm)
Width56 in (1,422 mm)
Curb weight 1,900 lb (864 kg)
Chronology
Predecessor Standard Little Nine
Successor Standard Eight

The Flying Nine was a small family car produced by the British Standard Motor Company between July 1936 and 1940. [1] It was the smallest of several relatively streamlined cars with which the company, in common with several UK mass market competitors, broadened and updated its range in the later 1930s. The Flying Standard series began with the Flying Twelve, Sixteen, and Twenty in October 1935, with smaller versions ranging down to 8HP added in the following years.

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Design

Behind the stylish rearward sloping radiator grill was a 1,131 cc side-valve engine, with a relatively long 100 mm (3.9 in) stroke and a 60 mm (2.4 in) bore. [2] The long stroke maximised the engine capacity available in the 9 HP tax class which, in the UK at that time, categorised cars and set annual car tax according to the diameter (bore) of the engine's cylinders. The side-valve engine received an aluminium head, a single Zenith carburettor, and thermo-siphon cooling. Power was delivered to the rear wheels via a fully synchronized four-speed gearbox. [3] Maximum power output is 33 bhp (25 kW) at 4,000 rpm. [4]

The two-door, four-light body was all-steel and featured a standard sliding sunroof. Standard offered a basic model and a DeLuxe model, with leather interior and some other additional equipment. A minor facelift in time for the 1938 London Motor Show involved a change to the radiator grill which, while still rearward leaning, now became more curvilinear. For the 1939 model year, the base model and the DeLuxe were renamed the Popular Saloon and a more amply equipped Super Saloon. The Super Saloon's interior was upholstered in leather, while the Popular Saloon had to make do with something called "leather cloth". The Popular also forewent a clock, dome light, and sun visor, and was fitted with black plated headlights rather than the Super Saloon's chromed units. [5]

Production came to an end in 1940, in response to the requirement to switch the UK car factories over to producing war supplies. By this time the car had been joined in the company's line-up by the similarly bodied but smaller engined and considerably faster selling Standard Eight. After the war, with Britain much impoverished, only the Standard Eight was revived.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Culshaw; Horrobin (1974). Complete Catalogue of British Cars. London: Macmillan. ISBN   0-333-16689-2.
  2. "Flying Standards - Mechanical Specifications". the Standard Motor Club. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022.
  3. "Standard Flying Nine". Classic & Sports Car: A-to-Z of Classics. Haymarket Media Group. Archived from the original on 13 December 2016.
  4. Flying Standard "Nine" (Brochure), Coventry, UK: Standard Motor Co. Ltd., p. 6 via Veikl
  5. Flying Standard "Nine" (Brochure), Coventry, UK: Standard Motor Co. Ltd., p. 4 via Veikl