Our choice for the 1940s is the Vauxhall Wyvern L-Type. After spending the Second World War building tanks and trucks, Vauxhall returned to car production in 1946, building the revised 10-4 and ...

Vauxhall was the General Motors U.K. brand from ... convertible were both body-on-frame. So was the Holden Wyvern, built by the Australian company which had become a GM subsidiary in 1931 before ...

Vauxhall’s eventual move to Luton where space ... with the conservative L-type followed by the E-type. Names such as Wyvern, Victor, Velox and Cresta were followed by the opening of the ...

This era from the 50s and 60s into the 1970s represented the bad years for Vauxhall, Mr Dymock suggests. "From the days of the Cresta and the Wyvern, after these were discarded, Vauxhalls have really ...

a landmine destined for Vauxhall blew up the town's bus garage. Initial post war efforts saw cars built for export, but in 1948 the famous Wyvern and Velox models were introduced with more than a ...

It was a vivid green Vauxhall Velox – an upgrade of the Vauxhall Wyvern. A chrome-enhanced beast, it took us to Great Yarmouth for a holiday – far better than the train we had endured in ...

Families buying ingredients to cook the newly-invented Coronation chicken in 1953 might have travelled to the shops in this car. The L-Type saloon was the crowning glory of Vauxhall’s post-war ...

In 1957, the Wyvern was replaced by the Victor, a poor copy of a US Chevrolet. It nearly killed Vauxhall, being the wrong shape and prone to rust. But the Victor 101 of 1964 revived the model and ...

The 1949 Vauxhall L-Type Wyvern taxi, which featured in the show as the car owned by garage proprietor Bernie Scripps, sold for £4,025 when it went under the hammer at Bonhams, in Harrogate.