Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerry Walden wrote: > The Humber Super Snipe is a dream of a car from the late 50's/early 60's. > Sadly they have disappeared from our roads now but as a teenager I used to > dream of such things - all leather and luxury, not too far short of a Rolls > Royce. Humber cars later (eventually) became part of Chrysler through very > take-overs but the name had long since disappeared. Not forgetting the top-of-the-range Humber Imperial (vinyl roof, extra super-duper appointments within to keep the most demanding plutocrat in utter comfort) nor the Humber Hawk, a stripped down version of the Super Snipe. Until recently here in Warsaw there were a couple driving around - leftovers from the British Embassy's car fleet, I guess.