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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22834 Location: UK

Definitely a lot of car for the money, a proper '50s wafter in very tidy order.

http://bit.ly/1eJdDLN

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Ellis · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:50 pm Post subject:

Nice.

Our neighbour had one of these for years. It was two tone grey over blue and was registered YUM 762.
He had bought it new in London just before moving to North Wales with his family to run a cafe two houses away from my then home.

It was covered and parked up for years after being "retired".
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roverdriver · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:08 am Post subject:

I bought one for Fifty pounds (Aus) in 1968, specifically for our honeymoon tour from Melbourne to Canberra, Sydney and inland parts of New South Wales.

It behaved perfectly and handled sections of unsealed road with ease.

At the end of the tour, my wife and I were off to New Zealand for a couple of years, so sold the car to my sister-in-law. I never found out what she did with it.

If I wasn't into Rovers, I would not mind having one again.
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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
Apparently UW was a London reg so he might have mis-rememberd a W as M
UN was Exeter

http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/where/gb.htm
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Ellis · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 6:43 pm Post subject:

Gentlemen.

The registration number YUM 762 is correct. I should know because the Humber Hawk was parked only 20yards or so from my bedroom window and I saw it every day. More so when it was "retired" in 1966/67 and the owner bought one of the first FD Vauxhall Victors - FCC 727F which was in turn changed to a white Triumph 2000 Mk2 JCC 153J.

The gentleman who owned it was a Mr J.D. Nolan who wanted to leave the London "rat race" (his words) and he moved to North Wales and never returned to his roots in the East End. His wife, sister and children did every year but he had no desire to.

UN was one of (CA was the other) registrations for the old county of Denbighshire until the late 1980's when it was allocated to Devon.

The Humber Hawk was new when he bought it.

Edit.

YUM was a Leeds registration number allocated from 1957 on.
Mr Nolan and his family moved here in the early summer of that year but why the car had a Leeds number I don't know.
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