This car has just left the start point in the Exchange Station car park at the beginning of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1986. That's Manchester Cathedral in the background.
It's the 1921 Vauxhall 30/8 E-Type Velox of Stuart L Baxter of Linthwaite, Huddersfield, and following it is another 1921 30/98, that of John Warburton of Atherton. The Vauxhall 30/98 was produced from 1913 to 1927 and the E-Type had a 4,525cc 4-cylinder inline engine - although the DVLA record says that this particular car's is 3,445cc. The entry for this car in the programme of the event reads as follows:
1921 Vauxhall 30/98 E-Type Velox Tourer,
Reg: TB 3119 4 cylinder 23.8 hp
(Stuart L. Baxter, Linthwaite, Huddersfield)
First registered in Rawtenstall, and still in very
original condition, this Velox competed
regularly at Shelsley Walsh hillclimbs in the
1920's and as a course car at Silverstone as late
as 1960. Mr Baxter also has the original
log-book.
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