Humber Staff Car
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The Humber Snipe 4 x 2 four-seat Open Tourer was built from 1941 to 1944 by the Routes Group, Coventry and used by the British Army as a Staff car. Field Marshal the Rt. Hon., the Viscount Montgomery of Alamain KG, GCB, DSO made extensive use of two of these vehicles. The first was M239459 and named 'Old Faithful', used from October 1942 to October 1943 in the Western Desert, then Sicily and Italy. This car was left for his successor, General Sir Oliver Leese. M239485 was his second Snipe and took him through the final stages of World War II.
