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CGVX1004 Vauxhall Centenary Set (Velox/Viva/Cavalier/Astra) 1907 - 2007 Corgi Classics / Drive Time / Vanguards Our Price: £39.75 (List Price: £49.99, You Save: £10.24) In Stock Order before 1pm Monday to Friday for same day dispatch, otherwise sent next working day. More About Delivery.. FREE 1st Class UK delivery when you spend £15 or more in one order. Size: 1:43 Scale Age: 14 years and up Release: November 2006 Type: Static Model Manufacturer's Code: VX1004 Product Code: CGVX1004

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Vauxhall are the UK arm of General Motors (GM); for many years the world's largest car manufacturer. However, it was not always so, in the company's formative years their talented technical director, Laurence Pomeroy, designed expensive sporting machines that were well thought of but not particularly profitable. So, when in 1925 GM (then a purely American company) were looking for production capacity in the UK they approached Vauxhall, whose board accepted their $2.5 million takeover offer, making Luton GM's first overseas manufacturing plant. However the origins of the Vauxhall name lie in the Middle Ages; to when, at around the turn of the 14th century, a French soldier named Fulk Le Breant (who was in the employ of Plantagenet King John) married heiress Lady Margaret de Redvers. Her Lambeth home became known as Fulk's Hall, and as time passed this was corrupted to Vauxhall. Scottish engineer Alexander Wilson set up an iron works there in 1857 and that company started making cars in 1903. By 1905 the now diverse 'Vauxhall Ironworks' expanded to Luton and in 1907, after some reorganisation, 'Vauxhall Motors' became a separate company. Fulk Le Breant's family emblem, a Griffin, (half lion, half eagle) is still used by Vauxhall to this day. Our Centenary Set presents four of Vauxhall's most important post war cars. The Velox, Viva, Cavalier and Astra show that, whilst Vauxhalls have often been at the forefront of fashionable design, they have remained, above all, stylish, practical and attainable.

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