The Humber Snipe was a four-door luxury saloon introduced by British-based Humber Limited for 1930 as a successor to the Humber 20/55 hp (which remained in the catalogue as 20/65) at the same time as the similar but slightly longer Humber Pullman.
The first Humber Snipe was launched in September 1929 under the banner headline "Such Cars As Even Humber Never Built Before".[1] It showed the influence of William Rootes' marketing skills following the appointment of Rootes Limited as Humber's "World Exporters" and also a significant similarity to his Hillmans. Almost three years later Humber Limited joined what became known as the Rootes Group as part of a necessary restructure of Humber's capital and ownership in July 1932.
Snipes and, later, Super Snipes became Rootes Group's owner-driver big car offerings until the brand disappeared under Chrysler ownership.
^"Display Advertising, Humber Limited". The Times. No. 45318. 26 September 1929. p. 11, col E.
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the north of the county on the south bank of the Humber Estuary 2 miles (3 km) west of Barton upon Humber. Facilities provided include car parking, toilets...
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the enemy in general. Folklorist Greg Kelley of the University of Guelph-Humber wrote: As a means of ridiculing the Nazis, "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball"...
Kingdom in 1965. Having trialled it against a Citroën DS19 Safari and Humber Super Snipe station wagon, Hampshire Constabulary purchased a white Volvo Amazon...
assembled from 1946. Humber Super Snipe - assembled from 1953. Sunbeam Mk III - assembled circa 1955 Sunbeam Alpine - assembled circa 1955 Humber Hawk – assembled...
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of the features and engine designs of the luxury Humber cars, including the Humber 12, 16/50, Snipe and Pullman, that were also being built under Rootes...
then displacing 1669 cc, was a scaled down version of the Snipe's engine first used in Humber's Twelve of 1933 and now bored out to 75 mm. The engine, the...
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