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Humber Super Snipe Mk4A - powerful car on the road

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Created on July 17, 2014

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Archiv Jeroen Booij / Tamara Tanner

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - von Australien nach Holland

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - stattliche Fünfmeter-Limousine

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Pontonform

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - weit öffnende Türen

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Armaturenbrett mit zentralem Tacho

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Sitzbank vorne, für drei Personen

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - bequeme Sitze im Fond

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Handgriffe im Fond

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - charakteristisches Gesicht

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - der längs eingebaute Reihensechszylinder

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - der Fortschritt im Motor wird mit der Beschriftung dokumentiert

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - typisch für die Zeit, die dynamischen Kühlerfigur

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Heckleuchten

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - der Typenschriftzug

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Markenschriftzug

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Humber Super Snipe (1954) - fährt mit sechs Personen an Bord über 140 km/h schnell

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Humber Super Snipe (1954) - mit Blueribon-Motor und 116 BHP

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Humber Super Snipe (1954) - das hochwertige Interieur

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - als man Autos noch zeichnete

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Inserat - Aufbruch in eine neue Ära des motorisierten Reisens

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - stabiles Fahrgestell mit längs eingebautem Reinen-Sechszylinder

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - der fortschrittliche Motor

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Humber Super Snipe (1953) - Inserat - Fortschritt

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Summary

From 1952 to 1955, Humber produced the Super Snipe Mk4, a stately automobile with an inline six-cylinder engine that proved its worth on long journeys in particular. As an English car produced in Australia, it represents a special version of the globalized value chains of the time. This report characterizes the Humber Super Snipe Mk4, which is hardly known to us, and shows it in many historical and new pictures, including a sales brochure.

This article contains the following chapters

Globalization from back then
Souvenir from a vacation in Australia
Oil crisis turned Humber into a cab
Transportation problems
Growth with the fourth edition
"Blue Riband" engine with more power
Triple victory at the "British Humber Day"
Made for long journeys
Little success for the successor Mk4B
Luxury and comfort
Further information

Estimated reading time: 5min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Rare vehicles with interesting technology don't always have to be expensive. Anyone who drives a Humber Super Snipe is sure to have special taste and is guaranteed to attract attention at a classic car meeting. In 1935, William Rootes, a former car salesman, founded the Rootes Group. As part of his expansion, he gradually took over the Humber company and other car manufacturers. Due to limited production facilities in the UK, Humber production was outsourced abroad. Many Hillmans, Humbers and Sunbeam-Talbots were exported as "CKD" (for "Completely Knocked Down") kits to be fully assembled in assembly plants in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Complete vehicles were then exported from there to the USA and Canada.

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