No, funny you should mention that, none of the Singer stylists (I must remember
they don't like being called designers) were taken on, or at least none that I
can find. Rootes took them over in 1955 by which time the Hunter range you refer
to was in production, not a very good seller so they dropped it as soon as they
could find a replacement. Its a pity they did not keep on the Singer engineers,
the twin cam engine they had developed for the Hunter was far superior than
anything Rootes had, chances are if they had kept it there would have been no
reason for the Tiger.
Unfortunately in those days as is today, manufacturers looked on the sports car
as limited production that cannot make money, thats why so many stay away from
it, if my memory is correct they only wanted Singers buildings for storage and
closed the production line down immediately, Billy Rootes even had all the twin
cam engines smashed with sledge hammers, severing all design links with Singers,
peculiar move!
Chris
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