"Family and a can-do spirit - that was it," said Mr Coomber. "There was this Vauxhall-ness that ran through everything.

Vauxhall has operated its factory in Luton, Bedfordshire, for more than 120 years after it was announced production of ...

At regular intervals, vehicle transporters exited the front gates of the historic Vauxhall plant in the English town of Luton ...

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At its peak in the 1960s, the plant employed about 35,000 under Vauxhall's longest-serving owner General Motors, which sold the brand to Stellantis's French forerunner PSA Group in 2017.