The Alvis 12/70 was announced by Alvis cars 22 September 1937. It was a four-cylinder sports saloon or 4-seater drophead coupé related to the pricier six-cylinder Alvis Silver Crest.Technical director and chief designer Smith-Clarke was fully occupied with a new factory to make Alvis’s Gnome-Rhone radial engines so the 12/70 was designed by George Lanchester and it proved to be his last automobile design.
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wheelbase (mm)
2.6924
length (km)
4.318
width (mm)
1.5748
engine
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manufacturer
Alvis Car and Engineering Company
predecessor
Alvis Firebird
production end year
1940-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
production start year
1937-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
successor
Alvis TA 14
transmission
Single plate clutch 4-speed centrally changed by a short lever gearbox synchromesh on 2nd 3rd and top half-floating spiral bevel driven axle
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