Description Recent service and gearbox overhaul; a smart example of this lightweight vintage tourer Only in production from 1929 – 1930, the Humber 9/28 was an improved version of the 9/20 and was very much a ‘big car in miniature’.

Like the 9/20 it had Humber’s new 1,056cc inlet-over-exhaust engine which had replaced the previous side-valve units in 1923.

The gearbox was a three-speed unit with a cone clutch, bevel axle and semi-elliptic suspension.

Front brakes were adopted from 1927 onwards.

First registered in Coventry in March 1929, this Humber sadly comes with no history whatsoever apart from a V5C and four old MOTs issued between 2002 and 2010.

Our vendor acquired the car at auction in 2020 when it was catalogued as a Humber 14/40 but this is clearly incorrect and he believes that it is in fact a 9/28.

The V5C records the engine capacity as 825cc but again this is almost certainly incorrect and it is most likely 1,056cc.

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