Pic of old Alvis cars

[pubrunner]

I'd be interested to know something about this Alvis - approximate age etc.

The photo was taken by my (late) uncle Chris Holroyd - he owned an Alvis 'Grey Lady' in the 1960s and 70s.

[Doofus]

It's a 1928 Front Wheel Drive model 10.

[Cliftonite]

Doofus said:

It's a 1928 Front Wheel Drive model 10.

That took over 15 minutes!

PistonHeads isn't what it was!

[EGW]

Just found this pic of GO 1591 the man in the picture is my "uncle Tom" Thomas Wright the car is down as a 1929 in the register,it was in our family for over 40 years and is responsible for me being a motor mechanic, the car is a 4 seat`er with wind deflectors formed in the bulkhead over the dash panel, we had the engine and gearbox in pieces many times it was a bugger as it could jam in two gears usually after selecting reverse I could sort that now older and wiser! the engine had gear driven timing gears, supercharger, straight cut crash box I can still hear them screaming when you gave it some Timpson ........still got tinnitus ........ Happy Days

[ferret50]

May be of interest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ae_JGOOjv8

[underwhelmist]

Not really about the cars, but there's a blue plaque in Bewdley to Capt GT Smith-Clarke, chief engineer: