I would like to make contact with anyone who has any information or
Literature on the Vauxhall J 14 hp, having just acquired one. Google has
revealed little on the subject. Thanks in anticipation."Crazy Diamond"

SYLVIA WALKER <sdwalker3 (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote

around 1938-48 (ish).

I have some motor engineer training text books dated around 1937. These are
not vehicle specific - carbs are treated as Solex or Zenith etc without
reference to which vehicles they were used with for example. It is a four
volume set, so I haven't looked all the way through it for Vauxhall (and
there is no index!)

But I have found a wiring diagram labelled "Vauxhall Twelve and Fourteen"
and a cut-away drawing labelled "Vauxhall Three-speed Gear Box with
Constant-mesh Second Gear"

Are these likely to be the Vauxhall J. And are they any use to you?

Jim

"Jim Warren" <jimwarren (AT) OMITblueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote

clear his garage - Standard Vanguard (beetleback) and a 1947-ish Vauxhall.
Used the Vanguard to tow away the Vauxhall. Do I recall it had a rather
nice small six engine, or was this another model? Wasn't it the first
unitary construction in the UK, all others being separate chassis? Flogged
it to a friend for a fiver, so only had it a couple of weeks and don't
remember that much about it.

Doubt if this is of much help, but I recall it being a rather pleasant
little car, given distinctly marginal brakes and roll angles only beaten by
the Citroen 2CV. Oh, and gaps between gears of the Grand Canyon variety.
But then, what else was available in the early post-war years? Do please
preserve it - although "purists" of the vintage ilk might despise it, cars
like this have a place in social history.

Regards, and thanks to Dave Plowman for helping me to get back on to this
NG....

Geoff Mackenzie

1958 Victa 150S (shared)
1966 E-Type Roadster
1974 Ducati 750GT
2006 bus pass

"Geoff Mackenzie" <gmac (AT) chapterfive (DOT) org.uk> wrote

Geoff

Welcome back - great to hear from you again.

I think Vauxhall were the first to make a completely unitary car in this
country in any quantity, but by the time they got to the J others had joined
the club. Many years ago a relation of mine used to have just pre-war
Vauxhall 14 which was probably the model before the J, whose dates as far as
I can ascertain are 1940 - 50. That had a nice small 6-cyl engine, but the
chasms between the gears rendered it practically useless when they came to
visit us on Exmoor.

The successor to the the J was the Velox (or Wyvern in 4 cylinder form)
which had the rather endearing feature that if the brakes could be persuaded
to work the result was that the nose of the car went up, not down. I think
the J and its immediate predeccessors were the same - something to with
Vauxhall using the Dubonnet front suspension system.

Ron Robinson

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:28:09 +0100, "R.N. Robinson"
<ronrob (AT) frumiousbandersnatch (DOT) freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

My father had an early 50s Cresta (ooooh!) for a couple of years that
he bought second hand. I learned a couple of new swear words during
that time.

The message <t2bq1399ij6tt1mffd0g4mk239igl2bg0k (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>
from Not Me <Notme (AT) bitbucket (DOT) gone> contains these words:

Something odd about the Vauxhall identification letters. The E series
started in 1951. Incidentally I was under the impression that the cars
prior to the E series all had a real chassis.

The Cresta was the de luxe version of the Velox. If Classic Car is to
believed that variant wasn't introduced till 1954. My 55 Cresta came
very close to killing me.

--
Roger Chapman
Nearest Marilyn still to be visited - Great Orme.
89 miles as the crow flies,
considerably more as the walker drives.

Am interested in the books.
"Jim Warren" <jimwarren (AT) OMITblueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote

SYLVIA WALKER <sdwalker3 (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote

Sorry, I am keeping the books.

What I was offering to do, if you wanted it, was to scan the diagrams I
found and send them to you. That is if you thought they were Vauxhall J
diagrams, because the dates don't quite line up.

Jim