Humber

The Humber Sceptre was the Rootes Group's compact luxury saloon, a wood-and-leather flagship built on humble family-car bones through three marks from 1963 to 1976, when it carried the Humber name into retirement. A guide to the Mk I, II and III, what made a Sceptre special, what to check when buying, and what one is worth today.

The Rootes Group was the family-run combine that built Hillman, Sunbeam, Humber, Singer and Commer vehicles from the late 1920s until Chrysler swallowed it in the 1960s. A guide to how two brothers from Kent assembled Britain's great badge-engineering empire, the pecking order of its marques, the classic Rootes cars worth knowing, and what each is like to own.