Falkes de Breauté also gained, by marriage, the rights to an area near London, south of the Thames. The house he built, Fulk's Hall, became known in time as Vauxhall.
The company that would become Vauxhall Motors was founded in 1857, and named Alex Wilson and Company after its Scottish founder. In 1897 it was renamed Vauxhall Iron Works, and the griffin emblem was adopted to emphasise its links to the local area. When Vauxhall Iron Works moved to Luton in 1905, the emblem coincidentally returned to its ancestral home.
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