Model SLS 4-door Saloon Prototype

by Phil Homer

I have recently uncovered this photograph in the Standard Motor Club’s archives.

It is believed to be of a prototype Saloon on the Model SLS chassis which dates it to about 1919. Surviving SLS’s are 2-seater Tourers with a further dickey seat in the opening boot. The company also made 4- seater Tourers on an extended Chassis. This must be the same chassis that underpins this Saloon.

I can’t help but think that the shaped windows make this rather a good looking car. I suspect however that all that glass and metal would have made the car very heavy and probably too much for a modest 1328cc sidevalve engine to pull along. Saloon bodies of any marque were a comparative rarity at the time.

So far as I know, no further examples were manufactured.

For contrast I have included a photo of a 2 seater SLS Tourer, below.

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