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Vauxhall: Britain’s Oldest Car Maker

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Vauxhall has been making cars in Britain for longer than someone else. The name entered the United Kingdom industrial lexicon in 1897, when the Vauxhall Iron Works Company was once formed to run the bankrupt engineering business founded by Alexander Wilson in 1859. The primary Vauxhall car left the Thames side works in 1903. The company moved to Luton in 1905, and the solely car-making company Vauxhall Motors Limited was once formed in 1907. Famed as a maker of sporting and luxury cars, Vauxhall was once bought by the American giant General Motors in 1925. GM took the company into a new era of mass production and turned it into probably the most top five car companies in the United Kingdom.

After the Second World War, Vauxhall become the household name it’s nowadays, with models such as Viva, Astra, Cresta, Victor, Nova, and Cavalier. The journey from the Thames to nowadays’s plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton is filled with twists, turns, dramas, and triumphs. Ian Coomber worked at Vauxhall for thirty-eight years, progressing from apprentice to the boardroom. He has told the Vauxhall story with the advantage of years of experience and a lifelong passion for the marque.

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