Standard Car production of the 1933 models at the Canley factory in Coventry, England, filmed 1932.

This film formed part of the marketing initiative for the 1933 models from the Standard Motor Company in Coventry.

[@stewartmcmanus3991]

Standard-Triumph was my last job in UK before we emigrated to Australia in 1973. TR6, Stag, Dolomite, Spitfire, GT6. We went back for a visit, mid 90s, all gone, just a grassy field.

[@camshaftcasting1451]

Any former patrons of "The Gluepot" would surely admit it was an appallingly inefficient and indisciplined plant! Wonder if that contributed to its demise?

[@DavidSmith-ze2wi]

My father bought a 1936 Standard Flying Nine in 1953. It had a side valve engine with an aluminium cylinder head and was a two door body. I always liked the chrome radiator it looked classy indeed the whole car was very attractive. One Saturday morning we were going into Coventry when there was an almighty bang and the car just seemed to jump after which it sounded like a machine gun. Father turned round and we went back home. Investigation found it was the rear axle so out came the diff unit. Unbelievably a nut from somewhere I can't remember where now had got trapped between the crown wheel and pinion and looked like a toffee was embedded there. We chiseled it off fortunately no damage had occurred so we put it all back together and a year or so later it took four of us to Cornwall. My father sold it in 1960 to a workmate as he bought a new car unfortunately around six months later the poor old Standard threw a rod through the crankcase and that was the sad end to it. Its always fondly remembered though as it took the family a lot of places during the 1950s.

[@paulnicholson1906]

I got a Standard from the guy who lived two doors down the road for free in 1963. We got it running and drove it on our lane and in the fields a bit. When we moved I gave it to the guys next door who eventually took the body off it and made a truck body out of it. Too bad that they did that as it wasn't in bad shape. It wasn't as early as these more late 30's a two door saloon. I remember it had a two blade fan and flathead engine.

[@SuperRetroville]

It was probably a later nine. They made a small 2 door variant, which was a development of the 4 door little nine. Its the little nine engines you see on the trsck here.

[@SuperRetroville]

Thanks. Pity i can't get hold of an earlier generation copy. It would be good to see the factory in more detail. So many of the machines appear to be driven from overhead pullies. Also interesting to see they ran the engines in by driving them from test jigs. I believe that having to make the Herald on a chassis with bolt on panels when the body pressing contractor was bought by a competitor didnt help.

[@tillyfoxtrotter]

Interesting video. What a shame Triumph failed. It never lacked ambition.

[@SuperRetroville]

its incredible to think that I am watching the actual people who built my car, some of them no older than teenagers and every single one of them has lived their life and died, but some of what they made still survives.

[@alanwhite6293]

@@SuperRetroville Triumph made some really great and stylish cars along the years, but when BL took over, that was the start of their demise, and the Stag as beautiful as it was, had its' problems, and the TR7 was for me, the end of triumph as a sports car company, they should have refined or re-designed the TR6, I had one for around 6 years and loved it.

[@SubTroppo]

Who gave the "green light' to that awful narration? I suppose that he could be forgiven as the 'talkies' were still a novelty then. I'm from Coventry and my father worked in a Standard factory - the one that became the Massey Ferguson factory on Banner Lane in 1959 (according to Gemini). My 'old school' was adjacent and I wonder how many boys went straight from school to work in the factory.

[@SuperRetroville]

Yes the narration is very much of its time. Evidently they still talk of the act of fitting the engine into a car on the production line as a "marriage". Have you any photos of the Standard works from when your dad was there?

[@SubTroppo]

@@SuperRetroville If you search online for 'massey ferguson tractor works banner lane' and click 'images' and scroll until you see the tower block of offices built in front of the old 1930's style Standard office building you can get images to download. It has all been demolished and is now a housing estate with pub & shops (last time I was there).

[@SubTroppo]

@@SuperRetroville I also have a book: 'Working at Massey's by Ken Tyrrell (a family friend [see Google Books]) which I believe was inspired by the book 'Working for Ford' by Huw Benyon.