Humber Snipe

The Humber Snipe is a four-door luxury sedan in the upper middle class, the Humber in 1930 brought out.

The Snipe 80 has a 3.5 liter six - cylinder in-line engine with the used since the mid- 1920s, change control ( oise ): while the exhaust valves, as usual until then, the sides were standing next to the cylinders, the intake valves were attached hanging and made so for a smoother gas exchange. The classic sedan with four doors ( two of which are hinged at the rear ) and without trunk reached a top speed of 120 km / h

1938, the vehicle has a slightly smaller engine with 3.2 liter displacement, the valves again stood side (sv). The performance of the Snipe 75 was lower by 5 bhp. Nonetheless reached the slightly smaller vehicle is now 126 km / h Already in the following year the production was stopped. In 1945, out of the Humber Super Snipe successor, at the same in the body of a 4.0 liter - engine was installed.

After the Second World War appeared in parallel with the successor model Super Snipe Snipe again a 65 Both models had, as well as the 4 cylinder Hawk, the same body that had become more rounded and streamlined compared to the pre-war version. The four doors were now hinged front. The engine is an extremely long-throw 6-cylinder sv- line engine with 2.7 liter displacement, which consists of 4.0 liters - was created machine of Super Snipe by reducing the bore. The engine brought it in to 65 bhp (48 kW) and accelerated the vehicle to up to 115 km / h 1948, the production of the Snipe was finally stopped.

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Culshaw, David & Horrobin, Peter: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895 - 1975, Veloce Publishing plc, Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1874105936

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• Vehicle of the upper middle class
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