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Originally Posted by karlosdeville
(Post 571433)
ID 350 is Iran Khodro's Peykan (arrow in persian...am I right Payam?) Based on a Hillman Hunter, it is to Iran what Maruti has been to us. |
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Originally Posted by karlosdeville
(Post 571411)
ID 349 is a 54 Swallow Doretti. Coachbuilt on Standard mechanicals. |
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Originally Posted by karlosdeville
(Post 571433)
ID 350 is Iran Khodro's Peykan (arrow in persian...am I right Payam?) Based on a Hillman Hunter, it is to Iran what Maruti has been to us. |
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Originally Posted by speedy
(Post 570762)
awini thats the right answer ID: 348  |
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Originally Posted by V-16
(Post 571680)
@ Speedy & G.S. Kripya already posted cars dobara post na karein. Shukria.:D |
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Originally Posted by -GS-
(Post 571717)
ID:352 (hope it has not been posted before).  |
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Originally Posted by V-16
(Post 571726)
No G.S. ID:352,the 1953-54 Alvis T/C 21 has not been posted before. :D |
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Originally Posted by -GS-
(Post 571730)
Sahi Jawab!! Its 1954 TC 21/100 Graber DHC. |
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Originally Posted by V-16
(Post 571740)
Inspite of maintaining its British RHD and ample leather and wood trimmings, It was built in Switzerland by the Swiss coach builder Hermann Graber who was the official importer of Alvis in the early 50s. But from 1958 Alvis bodies were built by Park Ward (alongside Graber specials) who also built bodies for Rolls and Bentley. |
| The Alvis car division was consistently losing money and had become more or less a public relations exercise and the TC 21/100 was looking very dated. Further investment in car production looked unlikely given the success of the other divisions. No-one would have believed that the Three Litre would simply refuse to die, and that it had over ten years of production and development life left in it yet. It was Hermann Graber who came to the rescue. He had been building small numbers of very elegant bodies on Three Litre chassis since the early 1950s, for sale to his Swiss customers at high prices. These cars were more or less "one-offs", and were light, strong and modern looking. Alvis hoped that they would be able to have bodies built in series to Graber's design in the UK substantially cheaper than the Swiss articles. Accordingly two cars were sent to Switzerland for prototype bodies to be built, then returned to the UK, complete with the necessary jigs and patterns for series production. A few cars were made, but whilst they were much admired and discussed, they were simply too expensive. The situation was only retrieved by going to Rolls-Royce subsidiary Mulliner Park Ward to redesign the body to enable its production, suitably modified for the British market, at a lower price. This was achieved in no uncertain manner and the cars sold well. Alvis' independence came to an end in 1965 when the company was taken over by Rover, and in turn became part of the British Leyland empire a couple of years later. By now most of the company's production was their highly successful ranges of armoured vehicles. The car division carried on until 1967, along with the Aero Engine department, which had gradually lost ground as more and more aircraft became powered by gas turbine engines. |
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Originally Posted by islero
(Post 571664)
ID 351: Berkeley B95? Powered by an Enfield Twin engine. |
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Originally Posted by V-16
(Post 571680)
@ Speedy & G.S. Kripya already posted cars dobara post na karein. Shukria.:D Sorry guys couldn't resist this. Not serious on this one but both the cars ( the Jowett and the 1800) have been posted earlier. Speedy, both Google Uncle and Yahoo Aunty (that was priceless G.S.) have given us no info and so haven't you. cough up the link of the info. |
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Originally Posted by ram
(Post 571785)
You're close @islero! ID:351 is a 1960 Berkeley B105. |
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Originally Posted by V-16
(Post 571740)
Inspite of maintaining its British RHD and ample leather and wood trimmings, It was built in Switzerland by the Swiss coach builder Hermann Graber who was the official importer of Alvis in the early 50s. But from 1958 Alvis bodies were built by Park Ward (alongside Graber specials) who also built bodies for Rolls and Bentley. |
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