A 1009cc inline 4 cylinder engine, fitted in a Standard ‘8hp’ saloon car. Standard made the Flying Eight until 1941, then ceased priduction due to the war effort. The 8hp was produced from 1945-1948. I’m not sure where the 8hp moniker comes from, this engine will actually produce 28 bhp at 4000 rpm.
Standard is a little known car manufacturer today, the company was in operation in England from 1903 until it was merged into British Leyland in 1968. This fairly clean example is preserved today at the Scarborough Fair Collection in North Yorkshire, alongside numerous early steam and combustion engine vehicles.
154 images taken with a polarising filter in October 2021, processed in Metashape and Blender. Image below is linked from Wikimedia, not this car.
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