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Turneth the wheel, roll out The Alvis.

As our cars look to venture forth, many just on Sunny days for short jaunts, twas not ever thus. The 1954-55 AOC Membership Year Book declares a time when Fourteens were out mixing it with the best! On the 7th/8th … Continue reading

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Easter Bonnets

This Cartoon by ‘Apsley’, links a rather charming typo with a lovely Drawing from 1997, just right to bring out again for Easter. Who has not seen that look from their Fourteen!  As the Motoring Season starts in earnest there … Continue reading

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Roll on Spring

Eileen and Terry report from their travels in Ca. Quite a lot of recent TB 14 activity recently, particularly bearing in mind that only 100 were made. Barn find, chassis 23590 has now found a new home and moved from … Continue reading

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Depths of Winter

Chassis 20972, Tickford Dhc., JTF 96 was owned by Arthur Holt M.P. who was a Member of The Liberal Party. He was elected to represent the Constituency of Bolton West in 1951 and was an M.P. for 13 years. At … Continue reading

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Happy New Year

Hoping everyone has had a very good Christmas despite most of the Country suffering from colds and bugs possibly due to unseasonally warm weather. Very grateful to the two Fourteen owners who have agreed to provide headlamp glasses and rims … Continue reading

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Christmas is coming

As Advent begins, many of our cars are settling down to wait until Spring before they emerge into the sunlight and remind their owners of the few little jobs they really, really would like done. Hopefully they have all had … Continue reading

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Days to remember and reflect

Seventy six years today, 14th November 1940, the Luftwaffe launched one of the largest aerial assaults of the second World War. The attack was targeted at one of Britain’s major manufacturing cities, The City of Coventry. The Bombers were sent … Continue reading

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Designed to thrill!

‘…for if ever a car was designed not to thrill it was this demure monument of taste and respectability (and I use the word ‘monument’ deliberately, for this was a car that proceeded at a stately pace, and was most … Continue reading

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Three Score Years and Ten.

Dave Culshaw, acclaimed Alvis Historian, has written an update to his excellent 50th Anniversary Article and this can be read in Articles. It makes fascinating reading and is also part of his PPS Section on the main Alvis Archive site. … Continue reading

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Lazy summer days.

Can anyone help by supplying photos of Knibbs of Manchester bodied Fourteens? The owner of chassis 20613 is restoring his car and would welcome some good photos of a Knibbs to help with the restoration. He has supplied some photos … Continue reading

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