Vauxhall 14/6

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Vauxhall 14/6 (1947)
Vauxhall 14/6 (1947)
14/6
Production period: 1933-1940
1946-1948
Class : Middle class
Body versions : Sedan , coupé , roadster , pick-up
Engines: Petrol engines :
1.8 liters (35 kW)
Length: 4281 mm
Width: 1596 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 2667 mm
Empty weight : -1080 kg
Previous model Vauxhall Cadet
successor Vauxhall Velox

The Vauxhall 14/6 , also Vauxhall Fourteen-Six or Vauxhall J , is a mid-range car that Vauxhall Motors built from 1933 to 1948 as the successor to the Cadet model .

General Motors Light Six

The 14/6 was announced at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1933 and then offered as a small, four-door, six-cylinder sedan. It had a six-cylinder in - line engine with four main bearings, overhead valves and a displacement of 1781 cm³.

  • Sedan 1933–1936
    with a separate frame
    and flat radiator grille

  • Sedan 1936–1938
    with a separate frame
    and modernized radiator grille

  • Sedan 1938–1939
    in service in France in 1940

Bodies

1933
Whittingham & Mitchel four-seater Stratford sports sedan

Program 1934:

Factory bodies
  • Sedan 4 doors, 6 windows, with sliding roof
  • Coupé 2 doors, with sliding roof
Other manufacturers' bodies (in the Vauxhall Standard Catalog)
  • Tickford Foursome Coupe (from Salmons )
  • Pendine sports sedan 4 seats (from Holbrook)
  • Suffolk sports sedan (by Holbrook)
  • Stratford sports sedan 4 seats (by Whittingham & Mitchel )
  • Limousine (from Duple )
  • 2-seater with Dickey (by Duple)

Self-supporting body from September 1938

The engine was carried over from the predecessor. The new car had independent suspension at the front and a three-speed gearbox instead of the "Silent Third" gearbox with four gears. The post-war models can be distinguished from the pre-war models by the different design of the bonnet and radiator grille.

A total of 45,499 vehicles were built, 30,511 of them after the war.

Made in Australia

The Vauxhall 14 J was also manufactured by Holden in Australia . From 1939 it was offered as a sedan, coupé and roadster and, as in the United Kingdom, but in a Holden version, also as a light ute .

  • 1934 coupe

  • Stratford limousine around 1935

  • Sedan 1937

  • Sedan 1937

  • Sedan around 1938

  • Roadster 1939

  • Bedford Ute 1940

  • Model J 1946
    Noteworthy: Split windshield and roof of the Holden

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars, 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 1999. ISBN 1-874105-93-6 . P. 333.
  2. ↑ a b c d Michal Sedgwick, Mark Gillies: AZ of Cars 1945-1970 . Haymarket Publishing, 1994, p. 212.
  3. ^ A b c Michal Sedgwick, Mark Gillies: AZ of Cars the 1930s . Haymarket Publishing, 1993. p. 208.
  4. ^ Vauxhall advertisement in The Times , October 12, 1933. p. 28.
  5. ^ A b Norm Darwin: 100 Years of GM in Australia . January 2002. pp. 130-133.

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