Humber Super Snipe

The Super Snipe was intended primarily for managers, businessmen and higher government employees and officials. For its size and power, he was relatively cheap in appearance and concept similar to the American car and also quite inexpensive.

A year after the introduction of the model broke from the Second World War, but the car was produced for the military on. The chassis was also used for the reinforced "light reconnaissance vehicle " Humber LRC. 1945, the peacetime production was resumed. From the Super Snipe several stages of evolution were Mark I -IV, developed, each bigger, stronger and more modern than the previous one. In 1957, the production was stopped.

After the war, the Rootes Group began to export the vehicle also. The Super Snipe was very popular in Australia; from the version Mark IV, 1952, there was also an assembly line. From 1956 an automatic transmission was installed on request, but shortly afterwards they ceased production.

In October 1958 new Super Snipe was introduced, which was based on the self-supporting body of the 4 -cylinder Humber Hawk and (later 3.0 equipped with a 2.6 liter liter ) inline six- cylinder engine of Armstrong Siddeley. The 3.0-liter also had front disc brakes.

The new Super Snipe was on the outside smaller, but bigger on the inside, had a higher engine performance and a more modern appearance, similar to that of General Motors cars mid -1950s. He, too, was built in different stages of evolution, Series I to Series V. When the Chrysler Rootes Group took over, was his production finally ceased in July 1967.

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