4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY HUMBER · 2 ENGINES

Humber engines

Humber engines

The engines of Humber's four-wheel drives: 2 of them, 2 petrol and 0 diesel, with the vehicles each one powered and when.

What Humber used, and when

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Rootes six-cylinder petrol 1940–1945 Rolls-Royce B60 1950–1971

petrol diesel electric multi-fuel

inline-6 · 4.1 L · petrol · naturally aspirated

Rootes six-cylinder petrol

1940–1945

The Rootes Group six of the Humber Armoured Car and the FWD heavy utility, 90 hp (67 kW) in the armoured car.

7 vehicles: Armoured Car Mk I to Mk III, Armoured Car (1940–45), FWD ambulance, FWD 8-cwt truck and 3 more

inline-6 · 4.3 L · petrol · naturally aspirated

Rolls-Royce B60

1950–1971

The six-cylinder member of the Rolls-Royce B range, 130 hp in the Ferret.

4 vehicles: Pig (FV1600, 1950s–90s), Pig, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Pig Mk 2 (1970s rearmouring), Flying, Kremlin and Foaming Pigs