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Vintage car still going strong Updated: Updated: Share Article The model with MCEME is of 1941 vintage.   Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME) here has been maintaining one of the rare vintage cars known as Humber Super Snipe that was used by General K M Cariappa who later became the Field Marshal. The Super Snipe was introduced in October 1941 by combining a four-litre inline six-cylinder engine from the larger Humber Pullman with the chassis and body of the Humber Snipe. The result was a car of superior performance and a top speed of 79 mph. The model with M...

Share: Colombo (News 1st); Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army on 12th December placed the cornerstone for the construction of the state-of-the-art new Base Workshop building of the Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (SLEME) Regiment which has already made a breakthrough in many an innovative product of international standards. “The SLEME’s electrical and mechanical engineers in the past few months have made new great strides in producing a fleet of new vehicles of high standards, some of which like Unicorn buffels have already ...