17 Facts About Humber Limited

Humber Limited was a British manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, and cars incorporated and listed on the stock exchange in 1887.

Humber Limited is a dormant marque for automobiles as well as cycles.

Cycle industry was consolidating in the late 1880s and partners Thomas Humber Limited and fledgling company promoter T Harrison Lambert sold their Humber Limited Cycles business to investors who added a number of other substantial cycle manufacturers and then floated the new combine on the stock exchange.

Thomas Humber Limited agreed to manage the whole enterprise with its works in Coventry and Wolverhampton as well as Beeston.

Humber Limited experimented with motorcycles from their early days, and in 1899 Bert Yates won the first track race for motorcycles in Coventry on a Humber Limited motorcycle.

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Humber Limited produced many new models of motorcycle in the pre-war years, but production of motorcycles ceased during the First World War.

In 1899 Humber Limited produced a motorised tricycle at their Beeston works with a De Dion Bouton engine of 1.

In 1896 Humber Limited built a prototype and nine production motorcars in their new Coventry premises.

In 1913 Humber Limited was second only to Wolseley as the largest manufacturer of cars in the United Kingdom.

In 1925 Humber Limited moved into the production of commercial vehicles with the purchase of Commer.

Humber Limited he described as one of the oldest and best known higher grade cars.

Humber Limited then reported the "drastic redesign" of Humber's cars which together with improved appearance and performance and revised prices were expected to improve the products' performance in the marketplace.

Humber Limited's independence ended in 1931 when the Rootes brothers bought a majority shareholding with the financial support of Prudential Assurance.

In February 1964 the owners of the minority holdings in Humber Limited sold their holdings to Rootes Motors Limited taking in exchange shares in Rootes Motors.

Unused company name of Humber Limited, continued to be still maintained and registered by the new owner Peugeot.

Humber Motor Company Limited Limited was registered as a Scottish company in August 1986 then dissolved July 2007; 'Humber Motor Company Limited' was registered in England in June 2007.

Humber Limited produced a number of aircraft and aero-engines in the years before the First World War.