Swarfega

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <UPMAIL04.199703271959280682@msn.com> "Jeff Wain" writes:

> ... and Humber made Super Snipes ... 

And the Hawk.  21ft and 2 1/2 tons of spacious automobile powered by a 40bhp 
engine.  Requests to exceed 40mph had to be sent in by postcard.  Sheer 
bodywork build quality that the engine was utterly incapable of dragging around.
 
Four gears: 1st, 0.75th, 0.5th and 0.25th.   If you went to post a letter, you 
didn't need to stop the car.  Just hop out, run across the road, post the 
letter, run back and jump back into the car.  All without disengaging gear.
 
We had a Singer Vogue - the "alternative badge" to the Humber.  A great big 
heavy green thing: "3704 R".

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 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club