Like so many of its contemporaries, Coventry-based Humber had graduated from cycle manufacture, through motorcycle manufacture to cars and indeed in the 1920s built all three forms of transport at the same time.

Quality was the keystone of their operation and wisely they chose not to vie with the likes of Morris and Austin for the economy end of the market.

For their 1925 season Humber increased the capacity of the 11.4hp car to 1,795 cc and listed the car as a 12/25hp.

In all its forms the car was particularly good looking, the vee-windscreen providing an instantly recognisable feature for the junior kerbside car-spotter, perhaps harking back a little to the elegant Edwardian era.

The Humber Stand at the 1925 Motor Show featured both tourer and saloon models, all priced significantly ahead of the contemporary offerings from the more mass-produced Austin and Morris models.

But then the Humber was more robustly built and more luxuriously appointed, attracting a more ‘well-to-do’ cu...