Word: humber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open-throttle British auto race for the $40 million export market to the U.S., Rootes Motors' hard-driving Sir William Rootes (Hillman Minx, Humber, Rover, Sunbeam-Talbot) had already knocked Austin out of second place. Last week Sir William claimed that he had overtaken Lord Nuffield,* was now shipping more cars to the U.S. than any other British maker. His total: 4,942 Rootes cars exported in the first half...
Depression gave him his chance. Rootes bought up, at distress prices, three famed but inefficient old companies-Humber, Hillman and Commer. He modernized their equipment and methods, had them paying dividends again within a year. Later the fast-growing Rootes Group took in others until it embraced 20 companies, including Sunbeam-Talbot...
...Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, pulled on his medal-hung tunic with the silver & gold epaulettes, buckled on his ivory-handled sword, and patted his plumed cocked hat into place. Then he climbed into his big black Humber and drove into Nairobi to open, in the name of the Queen, the 56-man Legislative Council (42 Europeans, 6 Africans, 6 Indians, 2 Arabs) that serves as Kenya's parliament...
...same response as it had before, but for the moment at least, there was reassurance in the old familiar, dogged smile beneath the square black hat. There was an encouraging echo of the good old days in the sight of Churchill making the V sign from his big, black Humber, the red, blue & gold flag of his honorary title, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, bravely flying from its fender, and the deep blue ribbon of Conservatism decorating its hood...
...There were plenty of other cars at prices more in line with the U.S. family budget. The Rootes group, one of the "big six" British manufacturers and a big exporter to the U.S. and Canada, sent a slick five-passenger Hillman Minx convertible ($1,745), and a four-cylinder Humber Hawk sedan ($1,997) that came close to looking like...