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[tunnie]

Spotted this in Tesco car park near work, never heard of "Humber" before, had to Google it. Defunct in 1931!

Nice to see its still in regular use!

[Andy B]

Spotted this in Tesco car park near work, never heard of "Humber" before, had to Google it.  ....

Part of the Rootes Group

[Andy B]

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Defunct in 1931!
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Humber itself might have gone in 1931, but the Humber/Hilman cars were built up to the 70's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_(car)

[tunnie]

Ah so it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre

[Andy B]

Ah so it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre

and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe

[henryd]

Ah so it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre

and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe

Humber Imperial was one up again

http://www.transport-museum.com/about/HumberImperial5Series.aspx

[Andy B]

Ah so it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre

and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe

Humber Imperial was one up again

http://www.transport-museum.com/about/HumberImperial5Series.aspx

Yes of course it was! There used to an Imperial near us, that was YELLOW!!!! with blacked out windows!   

[henryd]

Ah so it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Sceptre

and the Daddy of them all, in various guises/ages, was the Super Snipe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Super_Snipe

Humber Imperial was one up again

http://www.transport-museum.com/about/HumberImperial5Series.aspx

Yes of course it was! There used to an Imperial near us, that was YELLOW!!!! with blacked out windows!   

I used to drive one around some fields when I was in my teens,quite a car in its day and rare as rocking horse poo now

[Andy B]

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 and rare as rocking horse poo now

Tin worm was the biggest enemy of most cars of that era 

[2boxerdogs]

My father had one of these an auto, reverse didn't work so when required we used to push it back! Lovely shade of handpainted grey it was..

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The last Humber Sceptre was little more than a 'tarted up' Hillman Minx/Hunter.

The glory days had were long gone by then.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

All this talk of Humber's will make Lizzie come over all nostalgic.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The Car in Mr Tunnie's picture is a rare 'A' reg.

By my reckoning that makes it a 1963 model.

[Andy B]

The Car in Mr Tunnie's picture is a rare 'A' reg.

By my reckoning that makes it a 1963 model.

The reg is certainly 1963     

As you say, suffix A reg's aren't common because not every local council used the new A reg plates & continued to use the old style formats.

[Crazycarzowner]

My Dad used to have a Humber Imperial, the first car I could remember as a kid. Bench seats front & rear - 6 seater, leather everywhere. Had the selecta-ride thingamy too, picnic tables, privacy electric glass to separate front from rear. Was the loveliest most comfortable car with a big 3.0 straight 6 engine that would pull anything & was so simple to work on. It was built like a tank too, I remember once dad reversing into a concrete bollard and crushing it, there was hardly a scratch on the car 
I also remember it pulling a huge horsebox out of a ditch, thinking Nah........ it'll never drag that out, but it did and made it look easy too.

I cried when it finally went to the scrapyard in the sky