VAUXHALLS AT GAYDON

After what can best be described as an unsettled 12 months, Vauxhall’s famous Heritage Collection has now been put on display at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warkwickshire. Last year, the imminent sale of Vauxhall’s former Luton site meant that the Collection was taken north to an interim home at the company’s Ellesmere Port factory, where a converted 8000 square-meter building had been set aside for the 60-strong collection that featured representatives from every decade of Vauxhall’s 117-year history.

Plans were said to be in place to create an all-new publicfacing Heritage Centre at some point in the future, but now the 50 remaining cars and vans in the collection have made the journey back south to Gaydon. There, 30 of them (still covering each decade starting with the very first 5hp Light Car in 1903) are on display to tell the story of Vauxhall Motors’ rise from a niche sporting car manufacturer to one of the UK’s best-known automotive brands, 1903 was the year Vauxhall became a car manufacturer, originally based in the South London suburb from which it takes its name. After two years, larger premises were needed and