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1926 12/50 TE Cross & Ellis Sports
Tourer © McDonald Collection

1966 Three Litre TF 21 Mulliner Park Ward Drophead Coupé © AOC Archive

The Alvis Owner Club caters for all Alvis car and military vehicle owners and enthusiasts. It is a very active club, running a variety of social and gently competitive events all over the UK, and some overseas. Members are to be found around the world and this web site is one of the ways they keep in touch with the Club. Information on the site is necessarily restricted, and the author apologises for any omissions or inaccuracies, which are his responsibility alone. He hopes you enjoy your visit and are left in no doubt of the heroic scale of the contribution of the small firm of Alvis to Britain's motoring heritage. The site was written and compiled by Robin Gilbert, with help and encouragement from Edgar Shields, Arthur Fairburn and others.
Click on the links in the table below to navigate the site. Hotlinks are underlined thus - E-mail the Webmaster .

	The Alvis Owner Club - aims, activities, UK Sections, major Club events, services.
	Alvis Cars - principal pre and post war models, a short competition history, bibliography.
	The Alvis Company - history, products, locations.
	The AOC Online Shop, stuffed with goodies to appeal to all Alvis enthusiasts. Regalia items are now available on line.
	AOC Regalia - a selection of high quality items bearing the AOC badge. High quality photos are now on line
	Alvis Cars for Sale - generally a wide selection in conditions ranging from concours to basket case.
	Your Alvis - running an Alvis today, cars for sale, buyer's notes, restoration.
	Subscriptions - You can join the Alvis Owner Club online now and pay by credit card. Existing members can renew their subscriptions likewise. For those outside the UK this saves the trouble and expense of obtaining a sterling draft.
	Contacts and Links - how to reach the Club, other Alvis and related sites.
	Values of Alvis Cars This is intended to give values for insurance purposes. The preamble should be read carefully, and the list is available only in .pdf format.
	Picture Gallery - most of the principal models, arranged by decade, plus specials.
	The AOC Members' Section If you have been given a user name and password, then you can log in for access to the current Calendar,Cars for Sale with contacts,and the very popular Bulletin Board. this includes lively Alvis discussions, technical queries, spares wanted and for sale etc.

SW&W Picnic
(Omitted from May Calendar)

South West & Wales Section AOC Picnic at Lacock Abbey, near Bath on Sunday 20th July 2008. This wonderful event from the 1990ies is being revived again. Period dress and wind-up gramophones encouraged, but not essential. Arrive from 11.00am onwards at the beautiful National Trust village of Lacock, so often the setting for period dramas, and park in the old Village Pound, a pretty walled grass enclosure right in the heart of the village, next door to the ancient Red Lion pub and the tea shop. Enjoy your picnic in these sylvan surroundings or call into the pub for a good lunch. It is an excellent and safe place to park our cars, not too big so as to be unfriendly but big enough to easily accommodate us. Meet your friends, look at the cars or walk around the village, visit the Fox Talbot museum opposite The Pound, Lacock Abbey itself or the ancient and unspoilt church. National Trust membership will get you free entry to the Abbey, Museum & grounds. All AOC members or those interested in Alvis cars welcome. For further information, contact David Walters 01225 834422

Site updated 14th May 2008. The Webmaster had the faithful 12/70 DHC out for the FBHVC 'Drive It Day' run organised by his local Highland Classic Motor Club. It was a brilliant sunny day but very cold, so cold indeed that oil pressure hot was about 10 psi above what it usually is and even driven hard up a steep hill the water temperature never exceeded 75 degrees and the Kenlowe remained unused. A splendid photo of the WM driving the car appeared on the front cover of the Club newsletter. This pleased him, but not as much as a comment inside from one of the other participants in what the WM regards as modern car that being "pushed all the way by an Alvis" had really made his day!
At the risk of stirring up further discussion, well actually to encourage it, the Webmaster reminds his readership, if they exist, that it is almost always possible to identify 'who saved the car'. That is the person who persevered with repairs and overhauls when it was uneconomic to do so and kept the car in service when it would have made financial sense to scrap it or run it into the ground. This test can be applied to most of our cars and WM is proud to have done this with more than one Alvis. The logic could be applied decades ago just as it can now and the Webmaster salutes the late Donald Suttie and the late Gilbert Keech but for whose disregard of logic FS 1288 and EUU 654 would not be with him to enjoy today. "Throw the body away and build a special" would have been anathema to these gentlemen.

The Alvis Owner Club is a Company Limited by Guarantee. Any opinions expressed in this site are not necessarily those of the Club or its officials. The AOC and its officials neither accept responsibility for the results of following advice given nor do they necessarily endorse the services or products offered by advertisers or any officials of the Club in a private capacity. Technical material records the experiences of the author and is not intended as advice or guidance. The text and source code are copyright of Robin Gilbert and the photographs as acknowledged. No part of the material on this site may be copied or reproduced by any means without the specific written permission of the copyright holder.
© Robin Gilbert 1999-2008.
Alvis Owner Club Limited, Company No. 04034465,
5, Headington Drive,
Wokingham,
RG40 1XB,
England.

INTERNATIONAL 2008

David Gray has set up a site especially for International at St. Andrews. Click here to visit it.

Copies of " The Alvis Firefly", an excellent 72-page fully-illustrated book by Simon Fisher and "The Alvis Front Wheel Drive Cars", a 32-page A5-size booklet compiled by K R Day, are now available in the on-line shop. Click here!

NEW ALVIS BOOKS!

THE JULIAN COLLINS MEMORIAL RALLY

Julian loved visiting the state of Victoria in Australia, so the Alvis Car Club of Victoria has decided to organise a tour of Victoria in appreciation of all that Julian did for the Club, to take place in September or October of 2008. Entry is restricted to 20 cars from the UK. A circular route of approx. 1,500 miles. At this stage expressions of interest only
are being sought, go to the Members' Section for further details and a downloadable form. The co-ordinator for the UK end is Iain Galloway, e-mail iaingalloway@btinternet.com.

Do You Own or Know of a Long Lost Alvis?

The Alvis Owner Club is compiling a database of all Alvis cars, of which over 4000 are known to survive. This is being based on records held by various individuals within the Club but it needs to be kept as up to date as possible. You can help by sending information if you have an Alvis car, or if you have bought or sold one, using the online form available here.
Click Here for the Form

The late Brian Ledwith was working on an index and browsing aid to the third edition of Ken Day's book "Alvis The Story of the Red Triangle" at his untimely death. Now his daughter Anya has completed the work and the book can be ordered or downloaded in electronic format by going to http://stores.lulu.com/alvisowner .

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