From 5th to 9th February Retromobile will feature a special section of
15 cars which belonged to Maharajas at one time. Three of the cars are Indian owned, a 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I, ex-Cooch Behar, stationed in the UK and a 1930 Delage D8 S, with Figoni body, ex-Holkar which took part in Pebble Beach two years ago and is set to return to India sometime soon, both these cars are owned by Dr. Ravi Prakash from Bangalore. And there is a
1934 Humber Snipe 80 Landaulette by Thrupp & Maberley ex-State of Korea, a small princely state located in Central India which belongs to our contributor Harit Trivedi from India. This car has been shipped all the way from India just for the show.
This Humber is probably the only surviving one with this body style. When the car was purchased, Harit contacted
the Humber club, PVHCC and they informed him that they were unaware of the existence of a Humber with this body style. There is a catalogue for the 1934 range of Humbers in which a Landaulette style is shown, fitted with a speaking tube a glass partition and two jump seats. A special book has been brought out
by Gautam Sen describing all the cars being exhibited and is available for Euro 10 at the venue.
