Editing Rootes Group (section)

===Range rationalisation===
[[File:Rootesgroup chrysler logo.png|thumb|Rootes Group logo after Chrysler takeover. This logo was used until June 1970, when Rootes was replaced by Chrysler]]
[[File:Hillman Minx manufactured 1937 1184 cc according to tax office.JPG|thumb|[[Hillman Minx]] Magnificent, 1937]]
Hillman when purchased had been making large cars. They introduced a straight-eight soon after Hillman became a subsidiary, but it was withdrawn as the Depression deepened. Their 2-1/2 and 3-litre cars were re-styled in the mid-1930s and renamed Humber Snipe and their small Minx was made the mainstay bread and butter member of the Rootes range. Sunbeam continued its sports appeal but downsizing postwar to small to medium-sized cars. Humber made the larger luxury passenger vehicles, Snipes and variants, and luxury mid-size cars ending with the compact [[Humber Sceptre|Sceptre]]. The intervening break in medium-sized Humbers was filled by the postwar Sunbeams. Commer and Karrier were the commercial vehicle brands. Commer manufactured a full range of vans, trucks, tractors and bus chassis, and some badge-engineered small vehicles from the Hillman range. Karrier represented mainly municipal and special-purpose trucks, vans and buses, though towards the end included badge-engineered models from the Commer range.