Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd was a British
assembling organization in Coventry, England. From 1919–1967
notwithstanding cars intended for the citizen market, the organization
additionally processed dashing autos, flying machine motors, armored
autos and other armored battling vehicles, After turning into a
subsidiary of Rover in 1965, auto assembling was finished yet armored
vehicle production proceeded. Alvis came to be part of British Leyland
and after that in 1982 was sold to United Scientific Holdings which
renamed itself to Alvis plc, The first ever organization, T.g. John and
Company Ltd., was established in 1919 by thomas George John (1880 –
1946). Its first items were stationary engines,carburetors and
motorscooters. Taking after grievances from the Avro air ship
organization whose logo exhaust similitudes to the definitive winged
green triangle, the more commonplace transformed red triangle
consolidating the expression “Alvis” developed. On December 14, 1921,
the organization formally transformed its name to The Alvis Car and
Engineering Company Ltd. The root of the name Alvis has been the subject
of an extraordinary arrangement of theory throughout the years. Some
have inferred that de Freville proposed the name Alvis as a compound of
the expressions “aluminium” and “vis” (importance “quality” in Latin),
or maybe it might have been determined from the Norse legendary weapon
smith, Alvíss, In 1936 the organization name was abbreviated to Alvis
Ltd, and airplane motor and armored vehicle divisions were added to the
organization by the start of World War Ii. Smith-Clarke composed
numerous models throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
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