Alvis Car and Engineering Company

Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd
Company type	Private company
Industry	Automotive industry
Founded	Coventry, England 1919
Founder	Thomas George John
Defunct	1967
Successor	Rover Company
Headquarters	Coventry, England
Number of locations	Production; Coventry, England
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Thomas George John; Chairman and managing director, 1919–1944; Geoffrey de Freville; John Joseph Parkes; Chairman and managing director, 1946–1973; George Thomas Smith-Clarke; Chief engineer and general manager, 1922–1950; William M. Dunn; Chief engineer, vehicle division, 1922–1959; A. F. Varney; Chief Engineer, aero engine division, 1922–1972;
Products	Automobiles, military vehicles, aircraft engines
Website	www.thealviscarcompany.co.uk
	Footnotes / references;

Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd was a British manufacturing company in Coventry from 1919 to 1967. In addition to automobiles designed for the civilian market, the company also produced racing cars, aircraft engines, armoured cars and other armoured fighting vehicles.^[2]

Car manufacturing ended after the company became a subsidiary of Rover in 1965, but armoured vehicle manufacture continued. Alvis became part of British Leyland and then in 1982 was sold to United Scientific Holdings, which renamed itself Alvis plc.

In 2023, its successor company began manufacturing the brand’s classic models again.

^ Day 1989, pp. 10–112.
^ Wragg, David W. (1973). A Dictionary of Aviation (first ed.). Osprey. p. 34. ISBN 9780850451634.

[FOOTNOTEDay198910–112-1] Day 1989, pp. 10–112.

[2] Wragg, David W. (1973). A Dictionary of Aviation (first ed.). Osprey. p. 34. ISBN 9780850451634.

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