Much of our historic material has been sourced from Autocar over the years and like many I first saw an Alvis on the pages of that magazine. The Illiffe Press were early owners of Alvis cars. Now, Alvis is in the news again, click
Autocar and Alvis
Alvis Archive 
What an inspirational report.
1st and 2nd at Le Mans – in class, not overall
First British car with independent suspension in 1933 – what about the all independent suspension of the FWD Alvis from 1928 – also I fear that Morgan has a prior claim.
My Le Mans results book for 1928 shows the FWDs were 1st and 2nd in class. They were 6th and 9th overall with the 5 cars in front of 6th placed Alvis being 4lt or greater. The first 5 were 2, 4.5l Bentleys, a 5.8l Stutz and 2, 4/1l Chrysler 72s. A 4.5l (Barnato/Rubin) Bentley won the race but the second 4.5l Bentley (Birkin / Chassagne) came 5th completing only 49km more than the 1.5l Harvey/Pudey FWD Alvis within the 24 hours. The history records the ‘performance exceptionelle’ by the 1.5l Alvis cars and the Harvey/Pudey – Davis / Urquhart-Dykes teams.