The Vauxhall Companion (Kenneth Ullyett)

Author: Kenneth Ullyett, Hardbound, 160 Pages, ISBN: 9780091041809,First Edition, 1971 **Second-Hand book in good condition **

This is a book for every motoring enthusiast, whether a Vauxhall owner or not. Vauxhall has been in business since 1903, and this new book in the COMPANION series deals with the veteran and vintage days of Vauxhall, just as it does with the ultra-modern British group producing the Victor and Viva, the Cresta and Ventora, the VX 4/90 and other variants. Since 1925 Vauxhall Motors has had the backing of General Motors Corporation, the world's largest car manufacturing group, and Kenneth Ullyett has visited General Motors in Detroit to tell this part of the Vauxhall story.

Great Vauxhalls of a past era, including the Prince Henry models, the 30/98, the R-type 20/60 are brought to life, and this cavalcade of Vauxhall models gives specific details of cars which arouse nostalgic interest to every motorist who has followed motoring history for many years—the Cadet, the Ten, the Velox and Wyvern, the first Victor of the 1950's, and the breakthrough achieved by the first Viva in 1963.

In the pages of this VAUXHALL COMPANION you can tour the Luton and Ellesmere Port factories and meet the men and women on a mammoth payroll of over £50 million. You can visit the huge proving ground at Lidlington where prototype Vauxhalls are tested at high speeds, and you can see inside the research laboratories and styling areas. One in every six cars on the roads of Britain now is a Vauxhall, and there is hardly a nation in the world which does not have Vauxhalls driven on its highways.

Many of the excellent technical and nontechnical photographs included in the Vauxhall Companion have never been published before, and help to make a really fascinating book for all motoring enthusiasts.