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    The Alvis 4.3-litre and Alvis Speed 25 were British luxury touring cars announced in August 1936 and made until 1940 by Alvis Car and Engineering Company...
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    The Alvis Speed 20 is a British touring car that was made between late 1931 and 1936 by Alvis Car and Engineering Company in Coventry. It went through...
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    manufacture continued. Alvis became part of British Leyland and then in 1982 was sold to United Scientific Holdings, which renamed itself Alvis plc. In 2023, its...
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    awarded to Alvis Cars to build two prototypes for trials. The new armoured car was designated FV601A and armed with an Ordnance QF 2-pounder gun. Alvis also...
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    The Alvis Three Litre TD21 was a British sports saloon or coupé made by Alvis cars between the end of 1958 and October 1963. It was a revised version...
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    The Alvis Stormer is a military armoured vehicle manufactured by the British company Alvis Vickers, now BAE Systems Land & Armaments. The Stormer is a...
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    Saracen is a six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier designed and produced by Alvis from 1952 to 1976. It has been used by a variety of operators around the...
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  • The Alvis Crested Eagle is a passenger car series from the English car manufacturer Alvis. A total of 602 vehicles were manufactured between 1933 and...
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    The Alvis TA 14, also called the Alvis Fourteen, was the first car that the car maker and defence contractor Alvis cars produced after World War II. The...
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  • Model 16M 1946 Albion A14 1914 Allard Dragster 5.8 1960 Allard J2 1950 Alvis Speed 25 1937 AMC Hornet 1974 Argyll 15/30 hp 1913 Ariel Chopper 1954 Ariel Leader...
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    Reconnaissance (Tracked), CVR(T), family of seven armoured vehicles. Manufactured by Alvis, it was introduced into service with the British Army in 1973 and was withdrawn...
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    cargo area in the rear Alvis 4 - Version produced by Alvis UK for the British Army Alvis 8 - Komanche SWB version produced by Alvis UK for the British Army...
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    Farooq Alvi, continued business in Pakistan, as Brain NET Internet service providers with a company called Brain Telecommunication Limited. In 2011, 25 years...
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    with 2-door turret from Alvis Saracen APC Armament .30" (7.62 mm) Browning MG Mk 2/1 Original Mk 1 with 2-door turret from Alvis Saracen APC Armament .30"...
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    Paramount 1 1/2 litre Roadster Alvis-based prototype 1948 Alvis badge and 3litre engine Aluminium body on 1933 Alvis List of car manufacturers of the...
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    opened submissions to the LAV program. Three contractors were downselected. Alvis – A Scorpion 90 and three Scorpion APCs. Cadillac Gage – A V-150S (a stretched...
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    1928 he finished ninth overall at Le Mans on a 1½-litre front-wheel-drive Alvis. In 1925, Davis finished second at Le Mans with co-driver Jean Chassagne...
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    FV103 Spartan (category Alvis vehicles)
    scratch with a wider hull called the FV4333. Alvis later purchased the design rights, renamed the vehicle the Alvis Stormer, and developed it further. In 2006...
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    Alvis purchased Vickers Defence Systems to become Alvis Vickers, Vickers OMC became Alvis OMC. In 2004 BAE Systems acquired Alvis Vickers and Alvis OMC...
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    540 hp (400 kW) Alvis Leonides 503 radial engines, one built. Twin Pioneer Series 1 : Production aircraft with 560 hp (420 kW)Alvis Leonides 514 radial...
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    × Alvis Leonides 502/4 nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, 520 hp (390 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 162 mph (261 km/h, 141 kn) Cruise speed: 121 mph...
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    helicopters for military and civilian use WS-55 Series 2 19 built; Alvis engines (Alvis Leonides Major 755), civilian use WS-55 Series 3 5 built; Gnome turboshaft...
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  • A school maths teacher when not working as an ALVIS operator. She died when Festum attacked the ALVIS in the original series. Chisato Kōdate (小楯 千沙都...
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    utilised the fuselage, undercarriage and engine of the FB-1 Gyrodyne. The Alvis Leonides nine-cylinder radial engine was situated in the middle of the fuselage...
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    Rolls-Royce B80 series of straight-eight engines in the Alvis FV 600 armoured vehicle family. The Alvis Saladin armoured car was a 6x6 design with the engine...
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    nomenclature: FV431 Armoured load carrier - one prototype produced, but the Alvis Stalwart 6x6 vehicle was selected instead for load carrier role. FV432 Armoured...
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    Over time, the involvement of Hägglund & Söner has been superseded by Alvis Hägglunds (from 1997) and BAE Systems Hägglunds (from 2004). Developed specifically...
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    under licence in the United Kingdom. These would be powered by the 500 hp Alvis Leonides radial engine. A modified version was also developed by Westland...
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    worked with Issigonis at Alvis), Jack Daniels (who had worked with Issigonis on the Morris Minor), Chris Kingham (also from Alvis), Charles Griffin (from...
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    manufacturers[citation needed] of sports cars in the late 1920s were AC Cars, Alfa Romeo, Alvis, Amilcar, Bignan and Samson, Chenard-Walcker, Delage, Hispano-Suiza, Hotchkiss...
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