While he was later to be seen tooling around in a variety of more exotic machines, the Duke of Edinburgh - or Prince Philip of Greece as he then was - began his motoring life in one of these, a cheap and cheerful little runabout which is reckoned to have saved the Standard Motor Company because its larger cars weren't selling well.
In 1950 the company had another brush with Royalty when, during a demonstration for Princess Margaret at the Motor Show, the chairman Sir John Black pulled the wrong lever and accidentally incinerated the company's TRX prototype.
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