Humber Limited

Humber Limited was a British manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles and cars, incorporated and listed on the stock exchange in 1887 as Humber and Company Limited, a name chosen for the reputation of one constituent business that had belonged to Thomas Humber. A financial reconstruction in 1899 transferred the business to a new company, Humber Limited. From an interest in motor vehicles beginning in 1896 the motor division outgrew the cycle division, the cycle trade marks were sold to Raleigh in 1932, and the motorcycles were withdrawn during the 1930s depression. After Hillman and then the Rootes brothers took a controlling interest, Humber became the holding company for the vehicle-making members of the Rootes Group, whose businesses the Chrysler Corporation bought in 1967. The marque is now dormant.