Humber Staff Car
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14 22 November 2023, 00:38
Curtis CadenThank you, Villiers. Hopefully this will lead to a North Africa grouping to show the model club.
25 November 2023, 13:31
Curtis CadenField Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, liked the open top tourer based on the Humber Super Snipe chassis, with body work by Thrupp and Maberly.
His second one was used from the D-Day landings until the end of the war in Europe. This car became known as the 'Victory Car'. This is the car that Airfix modeled. A very similar vehicle was used in the North African campaign, and it had proved so reliable he called it 'Old Faithful'.
Thank you Villiers de Vos and Pietro De Angelis for your positive comments.
26 November 2023, 18:39
JvYou always build some very interesting builds
Fantastic work on this small scale
27 November 2023, 11:04
Curtis CadenThanks, Jv. I don't always get the best kits, but I do get subject matter that interests me.
27 November 2023, 21:22
Album info
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.
