• Vintage Vauxhalls in Australia. D and OD Type 1918 - 1926
  • Vintage Vauxhalls in Australia. D and OD Type 1918 - 1926

Vintage Vauxhalls in Australia. D and OD Type 1918 - 1926

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Vintage Vauxhalls in Australia. D and OD Type 1918 - 1926 by David Stuart.

"Sometimes history can be cruel, and often the true facts become blurred with time. It is generally held in Vintage Car circles that the Vauxhall 30-98 is 'The Finest of Sporting Cars' and the ultimate vintage Vauxhall, having carved an exemplary reputation both in period competition, and subsequently.
Truth is, that the 30-98 would not have existed without the sales achieved by the Vauxhall D and OD (23-60) types, which were the volume cars which made the 30-98 E and OE types possible. The D and OD (23-60) were the mainstay of Vauxhall's production from 1912 right through to the mid 1920s, creating the 'economies of scale' needed to make the more sporting 30-98 a viable proposition. During the Great War, Vauxhall supplied circa 2000 D types to the British government to support the war effort. The in-service feedback and subsequent development of the chassis in production, ensured an extremely reliable and durable product once civilian supplies became available again in 1919(...)" (from the Foreword by Davis Kirke)

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