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Isn't this the vehicle designed by two visiting Americans who had not previously designed a monocoque structure. The production examples were said to have begun to come apart at the seams days after delivery in Africa and the outcome was the shut down most of Vauxhall's export market. Shouldn't this be mentioned? Eddaido ( talk) 06:24, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
The cars sold by Harcombes in 1949 were just the same structural (and other) design as prewar cars with new mudguards, a bulging bootlid, built-in headlights and some horizontal bars up front, probably a face-lift designed at the end o the 1930s. Eddaido ( talk) 11:01, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
I don't know enough about cars to do a direct edit to this article, but there is a serious error in the first sentence. 1948 is given as the date for the introduction of the Vauxhall Velox. However, there was an earlier Vauxhall Velox. In fact, Wikipedia has an entry for it. See "Vauxhall 30-98".
I discovered this while reading Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves", a 1925 novel, set in Italy. One of the characters drives a Vauxhall Velox. Here is the first sentence among many in which Huxley mentions the Velox by name: "Lord Hovenden detached from his motor car was an entirely different being from the Lord Hovenden who lounged with such a deceptive air of languor behind the steering-wheel of a Vauxhall Velox."
1) The article should be emended to include the earlier version of the Velox.
2) The Huxley novel should be added to the section, "Vauxhall Velox in popular culture." Rev. H. Carlton Earwiggherd ( talk) 18:10, 7 May 2020 (UTC) Rev. H. Carlton Earwiggherd
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Isn't this the vehicle designed by two visiting Americans who had not previously designed a monocoque structure. The production examples were said to have begun to come apart at the seams days after delivery in Africa and the outcome was the shut down most of Vauxhall's export market. Shouldn't this be mentioned? Eddaido ( talk) 06:24, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
The cars sold by Harcombes in 1949 were just the same structural (and other) design as prewar cars with new mudguards, a bulging bootlid, built-in headlights and some horizontal bars up front, probably a face-lift designed at the end o the 1930s. Eddaido ( talk) 11:01, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
I don't know enough about cars to do a direct edit to this article, but there is a serious error in the first sentence. 1948 is given as the date for the introduction of the Vauxhall Velox. However, there was an earlier Vauxhall Velox. In fact, Wikipedia has an entry for it. See "Vauxhall 30-98".
I discovered this while reading Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves", a 1925 novel, set in Italy. One of the characters drives a Vauxhall Velox. Here is the first sentence among many in which Huxley mentions the Velox by name: "Lord Hovenden detached from his motor car was an entirely different being from the Lord Hovenden who lounged with such a deceptive air of languor behind the steering-wheel of a Vauxhall Velox."
1) The article should be emended to include the earlier version of the Velox.
2) The Huxley novel should be added to the section, "Vauxhall Velox in popular culture." Rev. H. Carlton Earwiggherd ( talk) 18:10, 7 May 2020 (UTC) Rev. H. Carlton Earwiggherd