Hillman Minx

The Hillman Minx was a mid-sized family car that Hillman built from 1931 to 1970, in many successive versions, and the long-running mainstay of the marque. The first Minx was announced on 1 October 1931 with a conventional pressed-steel body on a separate chassis and a 30 bhp 1185 cc engine, and by 1935 it was the first mass-produced car with an all-synchromesh gearbox. A wartime utility version served the British Army and RAF. After 1945 the Minx ran through numbered phases, gained an overhead-valve engine in 1955, and from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s was the greatest-volume seller of the Audax family of Rootes cars, which also included the Singer Gazelle and Sunbeam Rapier. Badge-engineered variants were sold by Humber, Singer and Sunbeam, and the final New Minx of 1967 was a basic version of the Hillman Hunter, built under Chrysler ownership.