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Seventieth Anniversary of The Proud Fourteens. Well that’s it, we have celebrated the seventieth Anniversary of the commencement of the Model. Three score years and ten and many of them looking in remarkably fine fettle judging by those at International … Continue reading →

Well, we are almost there, our Seventieth celebrations at IAW are at the weekend. So hope to see as many as possible at Wroxall Abbey, Warwickshire. A father and son team will be attending with a TA 14 and TF … Continue reading →

Hope to see as many TA/TB 14 owners at the International Weekend as possible. ‘Aunty May’, chassis 21830 has come out to have a good polish up and fettle before making the horrible journey around the M25 with no hard … Continue reading →

Suddenly we are less than a couple of months away from the 70th Anniversary Weekend at Wroxall Abbey Hotel. Plans are well underway for the event and the highlighting of Fourteens and TF21s, even the latter youngsters are now 50 … Continue reading →

Terrible to think that one of our cars features in a book of that name but there she is a TB 14, well it is an historic photo! This publication ‘Weird Cars’ by Stephen Vokins was published by Haines, ISBN … Continue reading →

Our cars perhaps give the aura of quiet restrained English craftsmanship (O.K. so maybe not the TBs). It is sometimes good to remember the hardships that people went through to produce them and the dreams they fulfilled. Once such small … Continue reading →

With provenance becoming ever more important it is useful to know if a Fourteen has had a chassis change at some stage. So if you want some exercise after the Christmas excesses, go check your gussets. There are a pair … Continue reading →

The Hotel for next year’s Alvis weekend and our 70th Anniversary Celebrations was booked out at great speed. Late in the morning of the 4th November the phone was picked up by the hotel with the immediate weary response, ‘I … Continue reading →

Never mind Halloween and Guy Fawkes, the 4th November is the key date for getting in quick to book accommodation for our International Alvis Weekend 20-22 May 2016 at Wroxall Abbey Hotel & Estate, CV35 7NB. In the event that … Continue reading →

Sadly we lost a great TA/TB14 man, Steve Tillyer, this month. I know there will be tributes to Steve elsewhere but he will be very missed by all who knew him. Frequently, entertaining emails would come through with snippets of … Continue reading →