Humber Super Snipe Series IV - boot badge

Humber Super Snipe Series IV - 'snipe' bird badge

Humber Imperial - door badge

Humber Imperial.

Humber Super Snipe Series IV. The Series III version gave the Super Snipe the distincyion of having 4 headlamps, a first for a British car. Series IV and V cars carried the same lamps

Humber Super Snipe Series II. In 1959 the Series II Super Snipe was launched with the Armstrong Siddeley design 2,651 cc, six-cylinder overhead-valve engine enlarged to 2,965 cc.

Humber Super Snipe Series II. The enlarged 3-litre engine of the Series II was accompanied with disc brakes on the front wheels, but the Series II only lasted one year.

Humber Super Snipe Series IV had a 6cylinder 3-litre engine, in place of the Hawk's 4cylinder one. The Series IV had opening rear quarterlights

Humber Super Snipe Series IV. The Series IV Super Snipe got a revised roofline and a larger rear window. The quarterlights in the rear doors were now openable.

Humber Super Snipe Series V Estate. The Estate models did not get the near windscreen and windows of the saloons

Humber Super Snipe Series V Estate. Bodies of Hawk and Super Snipe Estate cars were identical at the rear and were not changed as the cars progressed from Series I to Series V

Humber Super Snipe Series V. Introduced in 1964, this six-light restyle kept the big Humbers going for 3 more years until Chrysler buried them.

Humber Super Snipe Series V. The Series V restyle ended the wraparound rear window of the earlier models.

Humber Imperial - indicator lamps

Humber Imperial - tail lamps

Humber Super Snipe Series III

Humber Imperial. A more luxurious version of the Super Snipe, Imperials had vinyl covered roofs and extra brightwork

Humber Super Snipe Series V - the 6-light design was the main effect of the Series V restyle (also made to the Hawk)

Humber Imperial

Humber Super Snipe Series IV. In 1964 the roofline was revised and a deeper rear window givben to the Series IV cars