The later two series of cars with chassis numbers commencing TDB and TDC have survived better than the earlier two variants.

Those that were fitted with the Laycock de Normanville overdrive are able to cruise at around 55 to 60 MPH and return a fuel consumption of about 25 to 27 MPG.

The cars were distinctively styled in the later 1930s vogue for Razor Edge coachwork used in the 1940s by others including Austin for its big Sheerline.

The Managing Director of the Standard Motor Company at that time, Sir John Black, commissioned the design of the Razoredge saloon.

The body was built by Mulliners of Birmingham in the traditional coachbuilder's method of sheet metal over a wooden frame.

[1] The principal panels were constructed not from steel, which was in short supply in the wake of the Second World War, but from aluminium.

It had been used extensively for aircraft manufacture during the war, which had taken place in a number of car plants (known at the time as "shadow factories") in the English Midlands.

The chassis was fabricated from tubular steel and was a lengthened 108 in (2,743 mm) version of the one on the Roadster with which it also shared its transverse leaf spring front suspension.

The car used the larger 2088 cc four-cylinder engine with single Solex carburettor as fitted to the Standard Vanguard.

It is easily distinguished from the earlier cars by virtue of the push button door handles and the wider rear window.