you would of course like to go there in an Alvis.
For the series of destinations suggested in the 1950s, click on TA21 and start the gallery of 38 images.
The Speed 20 SA page has been updated to include photos of a rare Thrupp and Maberly saloon being conserved in Canada.
Nick Simpson kindly confirmed the new pricing of the various coachbuilders using the SA chassis:
Cross & Ellis 4 seater sports £695
Vanden Plas 4 seater sports £725
Vanden Plas 2 seater sports £895
Vanden Plas ‘straight-back’ saloon £865
Vanden Plas ‘large-boot’ saloon £895
Charlesworth saloon £850
Mayfair saloon £850
Thrupp & Maberly saloon £895
Click Speed 20 SA for a gallery of 109 images
Among the various design drawings held in the archives is this one which as far as we know was never built by New Avon on a Firefly chassis:
New Avon produced designs for Standard as well as work for Austin, Lanchester and Crossley Motors.
Alvis Archive 
Excellent!
Many thanks.
Martin ________________________________
Dear Alvis,
I have just received this email and am interested to know how you have my email address>.
I have connections with Alvis going back for over 75 years to when my father Major ME Barclay was alive and had both TD and TE cars having persuaded his company Transport Manager that it was more economical to have an Alvis company car than any lesser make or model.
Before the 2nd World War he had owned Alvis’s as a young man. You may have his name on file?
I worked for Alvis from 1976 for five years and enjoyed the friendship and the family culture through-out the firm.
Time goes by.
Thank you.
Ian EA Barclay
Thank you Ian, your recollections have been on the website on the VEHICLES page since 2012. You have been a subscriber since May 2023 according to our records so you should have been receiving emails since then every month or so.