Description In the current ownership for 50+ years; originally a fabric-bodied Weymann Saloon; rebodied in Princeton Tourer style about 30 years ago when it was still in regular use; now in need of substantial renovation The first Vauxhall car, a five-horsepower model with tiller steering, was built by the Vauxhall Iron Works in 1903.

A whole range of magnificent machines were soon to follow including cars like the mighty 30/98 and the 25/70 which cost as much as a Rolls-Royce and were every bit as well-engineered.

However, by the mid-1920s the market for expensive luxury cars had largely collapsed and Vauxhall found itself in financial difficulties.

In December 1925, General Motors stepped into the breach and bought Vauxhall for $2.5 million, their plan being to turn the firm into a high-volume producer of smaller, lower-priced cars – a strategy that was to save the company during the Great Depression which soon followed, but also caused a lot of adverse publicity in the UK as the ...