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LOT 408
1923 Vauxhall Type OD 23/60hp Tourer Project Registration no. not UK registered Chassis no. OD 595 Engine no. to be advised
Sold for £6,900 inc. premiumLot to be sold without reserve
Lot 408
1923 Vauxhall Type OD 23/60hp Tourer Project
The Beaulieu Sale: Collectors' Motor Cars & Automobilia|6 September 2025, 13:00 BST|Beaulieu, National Motor Museum
1923 Vauxhall Type OD 23/60hp Tourer Project
Registration no. not UK registered
Chassis no. OD 595
Engine no. to be advised
Registration no. not UK registered
Chassis no. OD 595
Engine no. to be advised
• One of approximately 100 survivors
• Mechanicals and bodywork complete
• Offered for restoration
"The years from 1908 to 1925 mark Vauxhall's golden age." - Michael Sedgwick, Vauxhall, Dalton Watson, London, 1981.
Famous by the end of the 19th Century for its marine engines, Scottish engineer Alexander Wilson's Vauxhall Ironworks Ltd built its first automobile in 1903: a single-cylinder, tiller-steered runabout designed by F W Hodges and J H Chambers. Around 70 cars were sold in the first year of production.
Prior to 1925, when Vauxhall was taken over by General Motors, the firm was renowned for producing handsome, finely engineered cars that put it on a par with Bentley or Sunbeam. Introduced in 1922, the 23/60hp was a development of the 4.0-litre, four-cylinder, sidevalve-engined D-Type Vauxhall of 1913, which had been designed by the firm's famous Chief Engineer, Laurence Pomeroy. Production of the original D-Type was maintained during WWI when the model was widely used as an army staff car. Manufacture continued after the cessation of hostilities, though Pomeroy departed and his place was taken by Charles Evelyn King, who designed a new overhead-valve detachable cylinder head for both the D-Type and its legendary sporting stablemate, the 30/98. Updated with King's OHV cylinder head in mid-1922, the model was known thereafter as the '23/60' or 'OD' and was built until 1926. The OD 23/60hp Vauxhall was a popular overseas model and many were dispatched to markets throughout the British Empire. Approximately 1,300 were made, of which some 100 survive.
This 1923 Vauxhall OD 23/60 is offered as a restoration project and sold strictly as viewed. According to our vendor, this car is complete both mechanically and as far as bodywork is concerned, although it has no gauges and the timber is in very poor shape.
• Mechanicals and bodywork complete
• Offered for restoration
"The years from 1908 to 1925 mark Vauxhall's golden age." - Michael Sedgwick, Vauxhall, Dalton Watson, London, 1981.
Famous by the end of the 19th Century for its marine engines, Scottish engineer Alexander Wilson's Vauxhall Ironworks Ltd built its first automobile in 1903: a single-cylinder, tiller-steered runabout designed by F W Hodges and J H Chambers. Around 70 cars were sold in the first year of production.
Prior to 1925, when Vauxhall was taken over by General Motors, the firm was renowned for producing handsome, finely engineered cars that put it on a par with Bentley or Sunbeam. Introduced in 1922, the 23/60hp was a development of the 4.0-litre, four-cylinder, sidevalve-engined D-Type Vauxhall of 1913, which had been designed by the firm's famous Chief Engineer, Laurence Pomeroy. Production of the original D-Type was maintained during WWI when the model was widely used as an army staff car. Manufacture continued after the cessation of hostilities, though Pomeroy departed and his place was taken by Charles Evelyn King, who designed a new overhead-valve detachable cylinder head for both the D-Type and its legendary sporting stablemate, the 30/98. Updated with King's OHV cylinder head in mid-1922, the model was known thereafter as the '23/60' or 'OD' and was built until 1926. The OD 23/60hp Vauxhall was a popular overseas model and many were dispatched to markets throughout the British Empire. Approximately 1,300 were made, of which some 100 survive.
This 1923 Vauxhall OD 23/60 is offered as a restoration project and sold strictly as viewed. According to our vendor, this car is complete both mechanically and as far as bodywork is concerned, although it has no gauges and the timber is in very poor shape.
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