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1952 Humber Hawk Mk.V 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2015-10-29 04:47 |
Leda with Oct 52+ bonnet mascot - another excellent find from our only other example, also in HK. |
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◊ 2015-10-29 08:53 |
Dear dsl, I think we are both in error, and maybe in both cases. Having counted the side windows, and arrived at a total of four, and looking at the script on the front door, I'm pretty sure that this one, and by inference maybe the other one, are nothing more nor less than 'umber 'awks. The subject picture may be a little distorted which does not help. The Leda, being based upon the Daimler Conquest, has a six-light format, with the extra glass being in front of the c-pillar. http://slatford.co.uk/Car%20Pictures%20Pages/Lanchester.htm -- Last edit: 2015-10-29 08:59:29 |
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◊ 2015-10-29 14:22 |
Sadly, I think you're right. Let's hope no-one else noticed ...... This is a Mk.V Hawk for all the side chrome. |
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◊ 2018-10-19 23:03 |
This one's niggling me a bit. Side chrome is Mk.V (sill, stoneguard, wheel trim rings) but front grilles should be more obvious around the sidelight, there's no wrapround on bumpers, and rear wing outline looks possibly Mk.IV. There's a similar question mark about this one as well. So I started wondering if there was a Mk.IV update at the midpoint of its career from Sept 50 to Sept 52, but Glass's says Oct 51 "no material changes". This also seems to apply to all other Rootes-jewels - remaining Humbers, Minxes, Sunbeam-Talbot 90 - which is unlike Rootes who loved annual updates with a bit of an unhealthy fetish; Singer were still separate in 1951 so irrelevant here. So maybe there was an unlisted Hawk update in Oct 51 but still within Mk.IV period, where chrome was increased?? However noted that this early 1952 plate Mk.IV does not have the additional trim. So unresolved on current info, and this one stays as Mk.V ..... |
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