NOTE: Several images on this page are Copyright IWM. They are reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Other image credits: Nic Portway, Vauxhall Register members, author's collection.
The D Type Staff Car story (coming soon)
The D type Staff Car (1915 spec)
Jock Payne on test with an early 1915 spec D type Staff Car. Still awaiting lamps!
A survivor - D2318A (engine) (UK)
Active Service in WW1
From the film 'Apocalypse'
Vauxhall D-Type Staff Car, Arras, France (IWM)
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British soldier digging out a snowed-up car at Neulette, 17 December 1917. (IWM)
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Vauxhall D type towing a Daimler? out of the mud at Hamel, January 1917.
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Lost? In Croatia.
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After the war: demobbed!
D type rebodied? Paris, post war
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D741 - An early survivor
Civilian cars adopt a military role
Probably A type c1912, rebodied in Russia
A-Type 20hp, c1912. In 1915 Percy C. Chaplin (driving) captured a German flag in Windhoek, Namibia. The inscription on the flag reads: "This flag I took from the Germans at Windhuk, German South West African Campaign, 1915. P. C. Chaplin (Sgt.). Gen. Botha's Staff. (https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2020601/contributions_5076.html#prettyPhoto)
Lt L Robinson VC: Prince Henry
Early D? type ambulance
A 16-20hp War Office (1914)
Vauxhall D-Type (or 16-20?) Ambulance. Army Service Corps ( ASC ) Motor Transport, Boulogne, 1916 (IWM)
Col T Gosling
Col M Young. MT section
Lord Derby reviewing the troops (Imperial War Museum)
