1921 Vauxhall 30/98 E Type

This was one of the participants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990 and is pictured in the Exchange Station car park before the start of the run.

There is no number 43 shown in the programme of the event, but It's a Vauxhall 30/98 it and was in the 1987 Run when the programme had this information:

1921 Vauxhall 30/98 E Type

Reg: XK 8805  4 cylinder  23.8 hp

(John Warburton, Atherton, Manchester)

Chris Shorrock, of Preston, friend and colleague of many famous names in the British motor industry, and designer and manufacturer of the Shorrock supercharger, owned this car for more than 40 years.  He bought it in Southport in 1930 for a fiver, and at the outbreak of war he completely dismantled it to avoid any risk of it being requisitioned. On his retirement, he spent several thousand absorbing hours rebuilding the Tourer to his own exacting standards.

1921 Vauxhall 30/98 E-Type Velox

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.