In September 1954 the car was re-branded as the Singer Hunter with a traditional radiator grille and fibreglass bonnet lid until 1955. The Hunter was well equipped with twin horns and screenwash as standard. A horse-head mascot was fitted over the radiator. 4772 Hunters were made.

A more basic model, the Hunter S, was released in 1956.

A more powerful Hunter 75 had a twin overhead camshaft engine (using an HRG designed cylinder head) but very few, possibly 20, were made before the range was cancelled after the Rootes Group took over Singer.

The Hunter has an odd claim to fame in the film Fire Maidens from Outer Space

Fire Maidens from Outer Space

Fire Maidens from Outer Space , released in the USA as Fire Maidens of Outer Space, is a 78-minute black-and-white science fiction feature film...

by Cy Roth

Cy Roth

Cy Roth was an American film director, writer and producer who made several low-budget films in the 1950s. Born in Chicago, he is known to have made just three films. The last of them, Fire Maidens from Outer Space , was made in the UK and has acquired a cult reputation as one of the worst science...

, sometimes called the worse film ever made. The car appears in several rather pointless tracking shots at the beginning of the film. As the film was produced just as the Singer company was heading for bankruptcy and take over in 1956, it can be assumed this was an early form of product placement.

The Hunter name was revived by Rootes in 1966 for their Rootes Arrow range, in the form of the Hillman Hunter.