Built at the company’s original south London factory, the Vauxhall Ironworks, this car is one of the seventy cars produced there in 1904.

Still a regular participant on the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, this is the last model Vauxhall built with tiller steering instead of a wheel. The 6hp was simply a development of the previous 5hp model, despite the designers, Frederick Hodges and John (known as Jack) Chambers, submitting ideas for a brand new car.

The Board of Directors decided that the new proposals were too risky and this prompted Chambers to resign and set up his own business, Chambers Motors, in Belfast. The new 6hp was first shown at the Crystal Palace Show in February 1904.

The main differences between the models was the inclusion of a reverse gear, by that point a legal requirement, and the wire wheels were changed to wooden artillery wheels. This made the later model slightly heavier and as a result the single-cylinder engine had to be made slightly bigger to 1029cc by increasing the stroke (the distance a piston travels inside a cylinder).