To celebrate the British International Motor Show this year we picked our 100 best British cars. Check out our selection to help you choose your favourite home-grown motor.
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94 Singer Nine Le Mans (page 19 of 25)
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Coventry-based Singer was the third-largest carmaker in the UK after Austin and Morris in the late 1920s. Cheaper even than the contemporary MG Midget, the 972cc Nine Le Mans could do up to 75mph. It was the first unsupercharged car under 1,100cc to qualify for the prestigious Rudge-Whitworth Cup in 1933, and the Singer Owners Club reckons that in 1934-35 more than 1,000 privately owned Nines and 1.5-litre variants were competing, winning 700 premier awards. Motorsport for the masses. The standard £185 Nine was a four-seater while the Le Mans two-seater cost just £215, and sported high-lift camshafts, counter-balanced crankshafts and close-ratio gears, plus a larger fuel tank for endurance events.
