August update

New old photos have occupied our time recently with questions to answer. A note from Tim Hart asks for details of his father’s Crested Eagle. “1937 Alvis Crested Eagle Chassis No 13756, Engine No 14115, Reg No MG5065. My father, Alan Hart (a passionate motoring “man”) passed away last year, aged 96 and whilst we have located a level of documentation evidencing his close involvement with and ownership of the car, we know very little about the car’s history etc. and/or its current whereabouts and, following in my Fathers footsteps I am interested to find out as much as I can as I am trying to piece together my fathers involvement in motor sport and motoring generally over many decades.“

13756 Crested Eagle TB MG 5065, 12682 Silver Eagle SG YS 5025, 13304 Speed 20 SD DGW 600 at 1957 AOC AGM album 3-5-1

The car is on the DVLA database – where is it now?

One car we know does exist is this 1930 12-50 Cross & Ellis tourer SC 8910

Bruce Gorie asks “Given the registration number is an Edinburgh one, this picture was probably taken in Scotland before the Second World War. The name of the gentleman on the left is not known. Equally, the dog’s name is unknown! The man on the right is my uncle, George A Swanson, First Officer of the SS Tinhow, who was lost in April 1941 when his ship was torpedoed off Mozambique. Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

The last post about Diana Russell generated some interest from another charity www.maggies.org wanting some pictures of Diana and her racing career. They are currently creating a video on the legacy of Diana Russell. Jim Gregory was able to help and came up with more photos which are shown below. We are not sure of the dates or places and some of the people but if you know do please leave a comment.

This one shows Diana with Rowland Simmons probably at Alvis in Coventry when he was Service Director and getting his hands dirty
Probably at Vintage Racing Cars in Northampton with two known TE21s and two unknown people
Who is Diana talking to?
Is that F C Brown at Alvis? Caption Competition please!
Who is driving 38, what is it, where and when?
Who is driving what, where and when?
This 1934 Firefly AYY 754 was once owned by T D Basher (really!) who lived in Northampton. Bulletins 425, 426 and 455 chronicle its history and last heard of in Italy with a man called Alvise.
Who, what, when and where?

If you can add any information to these photos, please leave a comment

Thanks to a donation from Martin Wickham we are expanding our pages on Fighting Vehicles to include some of the hundreds of photos and documents which he has catalogued. This photo taken in the month the last Alvis car was delivered shows how the Company treated its potential customers for the Stalwart.

Thanks to the generosity of some Register members we have a complete set of pristine Bulletins and Circulars from 1948 and various documents, such as….

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Driving Alvis cars since 1964 and the website since 2012

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  2. DGW 600(not638), a non runner, I bought for £60 and towed home to Somerset from a farm near Two Bridges on Dartmoor in the early 1970’s. Sold to someone who trailered it too somewhere near Exeter a couple of years later and now (2023)I believe it is in Leicestershire.

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