Import Velocity.js ES6 (using Webpack)

Question

I get this error

ERROR in ./bower_components/velocity/velocity.js Module build failed: TypeError: /Users/dave/project/bower_components/velocity/velocity.js: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined 

(note: the error is much longer with all types of errors in the headstock, but I assume that this is because something is loading incorrectly from Velocity)

My alias is Webpack:

  Velocity: resolveBowerPath('/velocity/velocity.js') 

My javascript import:

  import Velocity from 'Velocity'; 

When I nano this path (/Users/dave/project/bower_components/velocity/velocity.js) in the terminal, the file looks fine so that it is not a bad import url and I can import other Bower projects perfectly, it was the only one which will not load. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Note. I get the same error when I try to flash Velocity using webpack.ProvidePlugin() , so I think this is not a problem with webpack ...