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LD 2885 Humber 11HP “YELLOW PERIL” affectionately known (YP)
1913 - Built in Coventry Humber factory Chassis Number 481 – original purchaser unknown, catalogue
price £301 (Approx £36,000 in 2021 money).
1913 - Purchased by David Cuthbert of Glossop, Derbyshire second hand.
DC hit a stone wall outside Chatsworth and sent a telegram for Pooler the chauffeur to collect him
from the big house.
1916 - DC goes to war taking his other Humber with him (1910 4-seater) and was killed on the Somme in July that year.
His wife Harriet keeps YP for sentimental reasons. Meanwhile rationing means no petrol available and YP put away with Pooler reverting to being coachman again.
1920’s - Pooler teaches the Cuthbert children to drive in YP making sure they could reverse first before being allowed to drive forwards.
1924 - Chief Constable visits Hannah Cuthbert to ask that her son Charles Shepley-Cuthbert stops driving the car around the local roads, aged 10.
1929 - Bull Nosed Morris purchased and £5 only offered in p/x for YP which was declined and the car put in storage and greased by Pooler every year.
1940 - Illicit coal supplied hid in YP along with numerous mice.
1955 - New tyres bought and Harriet Cuthbert lets Noel Oliver recommission and use the car in return for maintaining it. Mr Oliver puts petrol in and bump starts it down a hill for the first time in 25 years.Everything remains original except for the fitting of new windscreen glass. Car is yellow at this point but history does not relate when it was painted yellow as it was not a factory colour.
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1967 - Bunty Cuthbert (Harriet’s daughter and now owner following Harriet’s passing) gives YP to her nephew David Shepley Cuthbert for his 21st and it remains in storage in Derbyshire.
1979 - YP moves to Lincolnshire and undergoes works so it can be used at David’s youngest daughter (Victoria) christening.
1985 - YP is moved to Chipping Warden but not used as fallen into disrepair and not roadworthy.
1990 - David commissions Malcom Dungworth from Derbyshire to do a nut and bolt restoration of YP.
Malcom had to fix a bent spring (most likely from that wall at Chatsworth!), a seized engine, nonfunctioning rear brakes, with every part painstakingly overhauled, repaired and refitted. New hood and seats made by marque expert but otherwise originality maintained.
2002 - Restoration complete and YP moves to Hook Norton, Oxforshire.
2003 - YP used to take David’s oldest daughter Julia to the church before her wedding.
2008 - YP used to take David’s youngest daughter Victoria and husband away from their wedding reception.
2013 - Edwardian Faye with steam Waltzer for 200 people to celebrate Yellow Peril’s 100th Birthday.
2021 - Following David passing, YP passes to his eldest daughter, Julia Crossman and moves to her house in Suffolk. The speedo reads 9,300 genuine miles covered in its 107 years life at this point.
David and Bridget Shepley-Cuthbert 2013 (YP’s 100th Birthday Party)
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2021 - YP features on front of Humber Register Magazine with article inside about the car and story of one family’s continuous ownership.
200 miles done in the year.
2022 - Engine nut and bolt rebuild and mechanical overhaul at Coletec Engineering followed by successfully completing Kop Hill Climb in September.
Ben, Florence and her cousin Olivia – Sept 2022