
Cars & Churchill: Blood, Sweat & Gears (3): Humber…
Having written about cars and Winston Churchill for fifty years, I finally produced a piece on them both. From exotica like Mors, Napier and Rolls-Royce to more prosaic makes like Austin, Humber and Wolseley, the story was three decades in coming. But I am satisfied that it is now complete.
Part 3, concluded from Part 2: Excerpt only. For footnotes, all illustrations and a roster of Churchill’s cars, see The Automobile, August 2016. To order, click here.
Humber for the ManAfter the war, Lord Rootes and Churchill became close friends, exchanging Christmas gifts and farm animals, even collaborating politically. “So sorry that we did not do better in Coventry,” Rootes wrote after the 1950 general election.…