Alvis Firebird

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{{Infobox automobile

|name =Alvis Firebird

|image = An ALVIS tourer in Braemar Castle car park - geograph.org.uk - 1435956.jpg

|caption= 4-door sports tourer by Cross & Ellis December 1934

|aka=

|manufacturer =Alvis

|production =1935–1936
449 made

|wheelbase ={{convert|118.5|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}{{cite book |last=Culshaw |author2=Horrobin |title=Complete Catalogue of British Cars |year=1974 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |isbn=0-333-16689-2}}

|length ={{convert|173|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}

|width ={{convert|64|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}

|successor =

|class =sporting chassis, bodied to suit owner's requirements

|body_style =Tourer, coupé or saloon

|layout =

|engine =1842cc Straight-4

}}

The Alvis Firebird was a British touring car made between 1935 and 1939 by Alvis Ltd in Coventry.

Developed from the Alvis Firefly, 449 Firebirds were produced, as a two-door Tourer, a 2+2 sports tourer, a two-door drophead Coupé, and a four-door Saloon.{{cite web|url=http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/-26823524/|title=Alvis Firebird|access-date=2008-08-10|archive-date=10 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810042320/http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/-26823524/|url-status=dead}}

Powered by an 1842 cc 4-cylinder overhead-valve Alvis engine, it had an aluminium body on an ash wood frame. As with other Alvis cars, the Firebird was built as a rolling chassis then sent to the coachbuilders Cross & Ellis, to be finished to the customer's requirements, so all Alvis Firebirds are different.{{cite web|url=http://www.everything2.com/node/1384395|title=Alvis|access-date=2008-08-10| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080831051322/http://www.everything2.com/node/1384395| archive-date= 31 August 2008 | url-status= live}} The Firebird had an all-synchromesh gearbox, and the chassis was lubricated by grease nipples under the bonnet.{{cite web|url=http://www.alvisoc.org/Site%20Files/Alvis%20Cars/Pre-War/FireflySixteen.htm|title=The Firefly and Firebird|access-date=2008-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509144413/http://www.alvisoc.org/Site%20Files/Alvis%20Cars/Pre-War/FireflySixteen.htm|archive-date=9 May 2008|url-status=dead}}

In 1939 World War II halted Alvis car production to make aircraft engines, and a German Luftwaffe bomb destroyed the Alvis car factory in 1940.{{cite web|url=http://www.getfrank.co.nz/alvis-cars-clever-drophead-coupes-and-saloons/|title=Alvis cars – clever drophead coupes and saloons|access-date=2008-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609013508/http://www.getfrank.co.nz/alvis-cars-clever-drophead-coupes-and-saloons/|archive-date=9 June 2008|url-status=dead}}

File:1935 Alvis Firebird 9188474182.jpg

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