Vauxhall 30-98
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The Vauxhall 30–98 is a car manufactured by Vauxhall at Luton, Bedfordshire from 1913 to 1927. In its day, its best-known configuration was the Vauxhall Velox standard 4-seater with open tourer body.
30–98 OE Velox tourer 1924
Higginson climbs Shelsley Walsh in the first 30–98, 7 June 1913
30–98 OE Velox tourer
30–98 Clinton 2-door 4-light saloon (replica body)
Vauxhall 23-60
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The Vauxhall 23-60 is a four or five-seater touring car manufactured by Vauxhall of Luton that was announced in July 1922. The 23-60's standard tourer Kington body was described as "preserving that gr
Vauxhall 30-98
…steel with a riveted cast iron liner. On some cars the drums were finned alloy again with a riveted cast iron liner. The final batch of cars used the 23–60 components and the front drums were very large, again with fins. The transmission brake—given a slight lead when front brakes were fitted—in a drum…
Kington 5-seater tourer
Front-wheel brakes for the 23-60 "Four-wheel braking with independent rear-wheel braking on a different set of drums." "The compensating or balancing mechanism of the Vauxhall front brakes is easily understood. A is the pedal brake-rod, which through the pin B turns or twists the cross-piece C, to which at opposite ends are attached the cables that work the brake shoes. The pin B, as it is free to incline slightly, finds the true centre immediately there is the slightest resistance, and thus the shoes on each side come into action simultaneously and with equal power."
23-60 tourer briefly at rest first registered 25 May 1923
1923 Vauxhall Kington 23 60 Touring Car ad