Description Rare and stately Humber with a lusty 100bhp 4.1 straight-six engine; highly original with some fabulous Art Deco features; only four former keepers; former wedding car in need of recommissioning following a period in storage; ideal winter project Among the pioneers of the British motoring scene, Humber produced their first car in 1896 and went on to make a range of sturdy, luxuriously trimmed saloons aimed at the upper middle classes.

Following the Rootes takeover in 1932, they concentrated on large six-cylinder cars under the Snipe, Imperial and Pullman brands which were used almost exclusively by civic dignitaries and top-brass military types.

In the Desert War against Rommel’s Afrika Corps, Field Marshal Montgomery became immensely fond of ‘Old Faithful’, his Super Snipe staff car, which had mine-proof floors, long range fuel tanks and balloon tyres.

Winston Churchill became equally attached to FLY 176, his Snipe Imperial Limousine, which got him and his loyal Tommy-g...