Author: Rootes Motors Limited
Title: Le Humber Super Snipe Catalogue for the French Market. 1950s First Edition
Description: London: Rootes Motors Limited, circa 1950s. Original wraps. 12pp. 18.5 x 26cm..The external appearance of the Humber Super Snipe is “expensive,” indeed palatial, in the less lurid style and the interior arrangement in keeping. The deep, soft, leather-upholstered seats with their high squabs, the generous leg room, and the wide doors contribute all that the moat fastidious could ask for in the way of creature comfort. The car rides comfortably, too. We hurled it over a rutted, potholed road and gave it full marks. On normal roads pitching is entirely absent, shocks are well absorbed, and the nose does not wallow under heavy retardation. This comfort factor is extended to the Super Snipe’s appointments.... Going briskly through them, you have excellent visibility from the side and rear windows, which include front half-windows and pivoted ventilator panels front and back. You have a good Clayton heater and demister, H.M.V. radio, a deep facia locker with an excellent lid, two screen visors with washable finger-grips and a mirror in the passenger’s, cigarette lighter, big, strong leather door pockets, a wide parcels-shelf behind the rear seat, a big ashtray in the back of the front-seat squab, leather-lined “pulls” for the rear-seat passengers, a roof light of adequate power which comes on whenever a door is opened, deep fold-up central arm-rests as well as side-rests front and back, and a good sliding roof.... The driver appreciates the clear speedometer and “service” dials on a wooden panel with concealed lighting, the separate ignition key which also locks the driver’s door, electric clock, large non-dazzle central rear-view mirror, the effective wind-tone horns, reversing-lamps, fog-lamps, underbonnet-lamp, twin screen wipers with large control knobs, steering-wheel control of dimmer and indicators, the latter cancelling effectively, the big rear window, and the clever three-spoke, non-sprung steering wheel with one spoke of tubular steel. .
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Title: Le Humber Super Snipe Catalogue for the French Market. 1950s First Edition
Description: London: Rootes Motors Limited, circa 1950s. Original wraps. 12pp. 18.5 x 26cm..The external appearance of the Humber Super Snipe is “expensive,” indeed palatial, in the less lurid style and the interior arrangement in keeping. The deep, soft, leather-upholstered seats with their high squabs, the generous leg room, and the wide doors contribute all that the moat fastidious could ask for in the way of creature comfort. The car rides comfortably, too. We hurled it over a rutted, potholed road and gave it full marks. On normal roads pitching is entirely absent, shocks are well absorbed, and the nose does not wallow under heavy retardation. This comfort factor is extended to the Super Snipe’s appointments.... Going briskly through them, you have excellent visibility from the side and rear windows, which include front half-windows and pivoted ventilator panels front and back. You have a good Clayton heater and demister, H.M.V. radio, a deep facia locker with an excellent lid, two screen visors with washable finger-grips and a mirror in the passenger’s, cigarette lighter, big, strong leather door pockets, a wide parcels-shelf behind the rear seat, a big ashtray in the back of the front-seat squab, leather-lined “pulls” for the rear-seat passengers, a roof light of adequate power which comes on whenever a door is opened, deep fold-up central arm-rests as well as side-rests front and back, and a good sliding roof.... The driver appreciates the clear speedometer and “service” dials on a wooden panel with concealed lighting, the separate ignition key which also locks the driver’s door, electric clock, large non-dazzle central rear-view mirror, the effective wind-tone horns, reversing-lamps, fog-lamps, underbonnet-lamp, twin screen wipers with large control knobs, steering-wheel control of dimmer and indicators, the latter cancelling effectively, the big rear window, and the clever three-spoke, non-sprung steering wheel with one spoke of tubular steel. .
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Price: US$ 250.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-5895
- Book number: 51-5895
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