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 ...

The Vauxhall Wyvern: 'Back then an American future seemed more exciting than a British past' When nothing is going right, Britons have always fallen back on humour; and they've reserved some of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Pollak tells of his motoring pleasure, and scrapes, in Samantha, a 1948 Vauxhall Wyvern, and how she helped King Harold on a college rag week stunt. I left home in 1965, aged 18, to start a ...

Since the ceremony will also focus on some of the vehicles made by Vauxhall for other markets, the company will bring a Portuguese 1949 Wyvern L-Type, a NorthAmerican 1957 Velox E-Type ...

While many might consider a long tenure at a company anything over, say, ten years, Bryan Webb from Gloucester, UK, is leaving Vauxhall after ... for models such as the Wyvern and Velox, names ...

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.