After the Second World War the Flying range of Standards was dropped but an updated car called the 8 hp was re-introduced in 1945.

[3] Apart from the power unit, it was a brand new design,[4] and marked Standard's first entry into the smallest 8 hp market.

[5][6] The chassis frame was all new, with box section longitudinals, and independent front suspension (ifs) by a transverse leaf spring.

[8] The engine was a development of the previous Flying Nine/Ten,[9] but now with a counterbalanced crankshaft[citation needed] and an aluminium cylinder head.

The former body was built for Standard by Fisher & Ludlow at a newly erected plant at Tile Hill, Coventry.

[4] The open tourer bodies were built by Carbodies at Holyhead Road, Coventry,[11] and these cars were probably also assembled there.

550 left hand drive (LHD) completely knocked down (CKD) sets were supplied to Denmark for assembly by their importers, Bohnstedt-Petersen AS in Copenhagen.

The cylinder bore was reduced to 56.7 mm, giving 1,009 cc swept volume while dropping the tax horsepower rating from 8.06 to 7.98 as the rules for rounding off numbers had been changed.

The absence of bonnet louvres on the 8 hp model provided visual differentiation from the pre-war Flying Eight.

The 1953 Eight was a completely new car with unit construction and the new Standard SC overhead valve engine.

To keep prices down, the car at launch was very basic with sliding windows, single windscreen wiper and no external boot lid.

Access to the boot was by folding down the rear seat, which had the backrest divided in two (an innovation copied in saloons from late 1980s onward to extend their boot-space into the passenger-compartment).

The 1954 De luxe got wind up windows and the Gold Star model of 1957 an opening boot lid.