Standard Flying Sixteen/Twenty

The Standard Flying Sixteen and Flying Twenty were the largest of the streamlined Flying Standard cars announced in October 1935 and built until 1939, sharing the rear body with the Flying Twelve but with different front ends and wheelbases. The Sixteen sat on a 116 inch wheelbase and the Twenty on 117 or 123 inches. The usual four-door, five-seat saloon had a gently tapering fastback and split rear window, designed under Arthur Ballard and built by Briggs Motor Bodies, often called the beetle-back, while Avon offered a lower Waymaker touring saloon. The smaller engine gave 56 bhp and the larger 65 bhp, and the Sixteen was dropped during 1937 in favour of the four-cylinder Flying Fourteen.