Introduced for 1933, the Vauxhall Light Six came with either a 1,530cc 12hp or 1,781cc 14hp overhead-valve engine and would prove an enormous success, more than 23,000 being made up to the end of 1934 when the model was redesigned and re-styled along Big Six lines, gaining a new X-braced chassis equipped with Dubonnet coil-sprung independent front suspension, four-speed synchromesh gearbox and mechanical brakes.

Models offered were the 12hp DY and 14hp DX, a further 59,000-or-so of which were manufactured up to the end of 1938.

This Vauxhall Light Six tourer was purchased new by the manager of Carbodies Limited, Coventry and first licensed in 1937.

At some time during the early 1940s the car was acquired by a Christopher Charles Ancil of Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire, who used it regularly until it was laid up in the 1980s.

A photograph on file dated circa 1943 shows Mr Ancil with 'CBY 132' at his farm.

The car remained unused thereafter until Mr Ancil's death when it was left ...