BRITAIN'S FIRST "LARGER CAR" CHRISTENED
(Special Correspondent.)
Beceived* Friday, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, July 11. The production! of larger cars fore cast when Mr. D'alton announced the revision of British taxation on moto: vehicles has started and deliveries toi, export only begi'n' in January. Thi Btandard Moto"r Oolnpany is to productone model only — a 16 horsepower sixseater saloOn which will be equally suitable for home ahd foteign markets and will sell at about £400 plus puf ehase tax. It is named the Vanguard and was- displayed at a " christenin^ cereniony" wheh Sir John Black declared: "Tn 1945 I visualised a ea) designed around eommohsehse and noi around legislati'Qn ih the hope that some ' Chancellor would- do what Mr Dalton has dohe." It is similar in design' fo the lush modern American vehicle wffch stylish easy flowing lines,. the sleering- wheel gear ehange and- an . eig'ht-ineh ground clearance. From next January to the end of June all production will be shipped overseas so that the new model will not be available for the hoihe market for about a year.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 July 1947, Page 5
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