Alvis TC 108G
Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd
Production1956–1958 / 35 produced
EngineAlvis 3.0 L Straight-6
Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd
The Alvis TC 108G is a British sporting car made by Alvis cars between 1956 and 1958. Coachbuilders Graber of Switzerland had produced some bodies for the TC21 that were much more up to date than the standard offering built for Alvis by Mulliners (Birmingham).
Mulliners production was becoming devoted to Standard Triumph —which purchased them in 1958— and Alvis's body supply had been getting difficult. Alvis's supplier of expensive drop head bodies was Tickford and they had been bought in 1955 by David Brown and his Aston Martin and Lagonda bodies had priority.
From the Wikipedia article Alvis TC 108G, CC BY-SA.
This is the catalogue record of the Alvis TC 108G, one of 18 models Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1956. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Alvis TC 108G properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1950s were the optimistic post-war boom, when chrome, tailfins and new unibody construction met the first purpose-built motorways and sports-car racing shaped reputations. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Fiat Fiat 500, the Nissan Nissan Skyline, the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz S-Class — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alvis TC 108G reads like this: the record lists its engine as Alvis 3.0 L Straight-6; kerb weight is recorded at body_style = 2 door saloon; drive goes through 4 speed manual; the layout is FR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd's own catalogue the Alvis TC 108G sits alongside the Alvis 10/30, the Alvis 12/50, the Alvis 12/70, the Alvis 12/75. The record names the Alvis TC 21 as its predecessor and the Alvis TD 21 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Coventry, England.
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