Equipment
Named after the area of London where the marque had first set up workshop, Vauxhall have made vehicles from 1903 and first moved their production facilities to Luton in 1905. On that year, the celebrated Lawrence Pomeroy joined the firm and was to become a highly successful Chief Engineer before leaving for the US in 1919 and, later, joining Daimler. Clarence E King, who had worked for Adams and Lorraine Dietrich, replaced him at Vauxhall. Indeed, so successful were the Bedfordshire manufacturers that, by 1920, they employed some 1400 people who built 780 motor cars.