Singer SM 1500

The Singer SM 1500 was a 4-door sedan, the singer brought out in 1948 as a successor to the model Super Twelve. This was the first new design after the Second World War.

The car had a 4- cylinder in-line engine with overhead camshaft ( OHC ) and 1506 cc displacement, the (35 kW) made ​​48 bhp and accelerating the limo to 119 km / h. The car had a fashionable pontoon body and was equipped with coil springs front and rear semi-elliptic springs.

In 1951, the engine capacity was slightly decreased to 1497 cc. At the same time you put the sedan an open roadster in the traditional manner ( with separate fenders and free-standing headlamps, such as the Model Nine ) to the side. For the sedan stood beside the engine is a model with 2 carburetors available, the 58 bhp ( 42.6 kW) made ​​and the car accelerated to 123 km / h.

The sedan was replaced in 1954 by the Singer Hunter, who was slightly longer and more traditional than the previous model. Its top speed was 113 km / h The Roadster was further built until 1956.

Also from the Hunter there was from 1955 a more powerful version, the Hunter 75, the (55 kW) made ​​with 2 carburetors 75 bhp.

1956, after the acquisition by the Rootes Group, the Hunter was replaced by the Singer Gazelle, which was a derivative of the Hillman Minx. From the Roadster still is a prototype, the Singer SMX with more modern body. To a production run, it did not come.

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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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