ALVIS: THE STORY OF THE RED TRIANGLE
Written by Kenneth Day
Published by Gentry Books
in 1981
ISBN: 0856140635
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- COMPANY HISTORY
ALVIS: THE STORY OF THE RED TRIANGLE
Written by Kenneth Day.
Stock no. 1817137
1st.
1981.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A definitive history of one of the most famous, influential and successful car manufacturers over the last half century. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 335 pages. ISBN: 0856140635. Lower corners of boards bumped. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper.
Front cover
Contents
- PART I COMPANY HISTORY:
- 1. The Alivis
- 2. The Men Behind the Name
- 3. T.G. John Ltd
- 4. Alvis Car & Engineering Co. Ltd.
- 5. Front Wheel Drive
- 6. Manufacturing the Vintage Car
- 7. Technical Developments and New Models
- 8. The First All Synchromesh Gearbox
- 9. Alvis Expands
- 10. Alvis Ltd.
- 11. The First Aero Engine
- 12. Near Disaster
- 13. The Future Secured
- 14. Alvis Goes to War
- 15. T.G. John Retires
- 16. Transition to Peace
- 17. Under New Management
- 18. A Three Product Company
- 19. The TA175/350 and Hard Decisions
- 20. Corporate and Product Changes
- 21. Aero Engine and Car Production Ends
- 22. Scorpion Arrives
- PART II RACING HISTORY:
- 1. Early Years
- 2. 1923 Victory
- 3. Front Wheel Drive Racing Cars
- 4. Front Wheel Drive Sports Cars
- 5. Private Entrants
- PART III CAR SPECIFICATIONS AND PERFORMANCE DATA:
- 1. The Side Valve Cars
- 2. The 12/50 and 12/60
- 3. The Six Cylinder 14.75
- 4. The Front Wheel Drive Cars
- 5. The Silver Eagle
- 6. The Speed 20
- 7. Firefly and Firebird
- 8. The Crested Eagle
- 9. The 3.5 Litre, Speed 25 and 4.3 Cars
- 10. The Silver Crest
- 11. The 12/70
- 12. The Fourteen
- 13. The Three Litre
- PART IV AERO ENGINES:
- 1. The Gnome Rhone, Pelides and Alcides
- 2. The Alvis Leonides
- PART V ARMOURED VEHICLES:
- 1. Pre-War Developments
- 2. Armoured Wheeled Vehicles
- 3. Scorpion
- APPENDICES