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Alexander Wilson founded the company in Vauxhall, London in 1857. Originally named Alex Wilson and Company, subsequently the Vauxhall Iron Works, it built pumps and marine engines.
In 1903 the company built its first car, a 5 hp (4 kW) model steered using a tiller, with only two forward gears and no reverse. This led to a better design which was made available for sale.
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In 1925 Vauxhall was bought by GM for 2.5 million US dollars. The influence of the American parent was pervasive, and together with Ford, Vauxhall's main competitor, led a wave of American-influenced styling in Europe that persisted through to the 1980s. The subsidiary constructing commercial vehicles, Bedford Vehicles was established in 1930 as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 made importing American lorries uneconomical.
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During World War II, car production was suspended to allow Vauxhall to work on the Churchill tank, which was designed at Luton in less than a year, and assembled there (as well as at other sites). Over 5,600 Churchill tanks were built.
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Its compact car, the Viva, formed the basis of the first Holden Torana in Australia in the 1960s. From the 1970s, most models were designed and built in partnership with Opel in Germany. The Chevette, Cavalier and Carlton were basically restyled versions of the Kadett, Ascona and Rekord, featuring a distinctive sloping front end, nicknamed the "droopsnoot", first prototyped on the HPF Firenza. The Viceroy and Royale were simply rebadged versions of Opel's Commodore and Senator, imported from Germany.
This was the starting point for the "Opelisation" of Vauxhall. With the 1979 demise of the Viva, GM policy was for future Vauxhall models to be, in effect, rebadged Opels, designed and developed in Rüsselsheim, with little engineering input from Luton. In the late '70s and early '80s, GM dealers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland sold otherwise identical Opel and Vauxhall models alongside each other. This policy of duplication was phased out, beginning with the demise of Opel dealerships in the UK in 1981. The last Opel car (the Manta coupe) to be "officially" sold in Britain was withdrawn in 1988.
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