Teenage Spirit

It didn't stand for anything, officially. The company was registered as "SS Cars Ltd" with "SS" being part of the name itself, not an abbreviation of the name. If it stood for anything, it would most likely have been "Swallow Sidecar", which was the predecesor company of SS. But the cars made by SS Cars Ltd used engines from the Standard Motor Company, so employees of Standard may well have been under the impression that their comapny name formed part of the derivation (and it's possible they were at least partly right).

Mark

: : It didn't stand for anything, officially. The company was registered : as "SS Cars Ltd" with "SS" being part of the name itself, not an : abbreviation of the name. If it stood for anything, it would most : likely have been "Swallow Sidecar", which was the predecesor company : of SS. But the cars made by SS Cars Ltd used engines from the Standard : Motor Company, so employees of Standard may well have been under the : impression that their comapny name formed part of the derivation (and : it's possible they were at least partly right). :

No they would not, that's like thinking the 'R' in TVR stands for 'Rover' because they use what most call the "Rover V8" (in fact a ex Buick design bought by Rover in the 1960s, hence why the P5 and P6 models in the Rover range were suffixed with a 'B' where the engine was fitted), as you say, "SS Cars" came into existence at the same time that the demise Swallow Sidecar company name cessed to be used so it's almost certain that the two are directly linked.

Mark, stick to web authoring, something you *do* know something about...

SS and Standard were more closely linked than Rover and TVR, though, so it's not unreasonable that the SS name was chosen because it had multiple possible meanings - the ambiguity could well have been deliberate. The fact that Standard employees believed that to be the case does provide evidence to support such a hypothesis. It doesn't prove it to be the case (which is why I only said that it's possible they were at least partly right), but it's clearly not impossible either.

Mark

I gave a sensible response to your post. In what way was that trolling?

Mark

: : I gave a sensible response to your post.

That sir, is a matter of opinion...

For General Motors, SS means Super Sport.

That would be the Mayflower and Renown then.

Precisely!

Weren't they 17th century sailing ships?

So who said Triumphs were modern??? =3D8^]

The Romans were very good on triumphs

What about Moses?

"The roar of his Triumph was heard throughout the land."

" The Romans were very good on triumphs " So why did they build all those straight roads ?

Did you know 'Jerry' had a motorcycle named after him ?

It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of fight in the dog.

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That was after the Lord had told him to "Come forth!" - a prime example of race-fixing. Moses was right to ignore Him!

Trouble was he slipped and came fifth!

Krypsis

Thought he was caught taking tablets....plus one or two of his race were stoned !

cheers, simon

I was once a proud Triumph owner, but to be honest the Mayflower and Renown were very much like 17th century sailing ships.

(rushes of to bomb shelter)

Greg.P.

"Greg.Procter" wrote

LOL - I once owned a TR4A, the only Triumph car I've ever owned. The Mayflowers would predate that by a little while, but I always thought they were 'interesting' looking cars - quite unlike anything else around in the late 1950s.

John.