Caunter eventually became Chief Technical Librarian for the R.A.E. after a 1943 transfer and sold his prototype engine to Alvis Ltd., Coventry, for £2,000 after the war.
Chassis manufactured by Alvis Vehicles Limited, Telford, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, UK
While Mohazzam Shah, alias Dhanni Pir (from whom the Dhanyal tribe descended), arrived around 1190 from Dhanni, Chakwal, Shah's parents had ruled Multan State for about 190 years and were descended from Alvis, who migrated from Iraq early in the 8th century.
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Straussler came to an agreement with the Weiss Manfred factory of Csepel, Budapest to produce vehicles from his designs for use in his home country - the most prominent was the Csaba (named after the son of Attila the Hun) which was designed based on his experience of the Alvis AC2 armoured car.
In 2004, the board of Alvis approved a £309m takeover bid by the American defence company General Dynamics.
Captain Tankboy uses an Alvis Stalwart FV622 as his Battle Truck in the crazy Destruction TV show, Tankboy TV.
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An "Alvis Stalwart" is used in the fourth Modesty Blaise novel (A Taste for Death) by the characters to escape from the Roman city of Mus and cross the Sahara desert to the North African coast.
Alvis was born in Paducah, Texas and listened to country music on the radio as a child and was given a guitar at age ten.
In October 1997 the British company Alvis plc acquired Hägglunds Vehicle AB to form Alvis Hägglunds AB.
Alvis had been in partnership with Nicholas Straussler and provided armoured cars to the Royal Air Force, Morris had participated in trials and production of armoured cars, and BSA Cycles -whose parent Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) was involved in armaments - had a small front wheel drive vehicle in production.
Miguel Ángel Rimba Alvis (born November 1, 1967 in Riberalta) is a former Bolivian football defender.