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• Armored car (military)
  ...icles can be quite large, and actually be superior to some smaller tracked vehicles in terms of armor and armament. ...armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles. The first manufactured one was the "[[Motor War Car]]" in 1902.<ref>{{cit
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• Alvis Speed 20
  |Marque = [[Alvis]] ...20''' was a British touring car made between 1932 and 1936 by [[Alvis_Cars|Alvis Ltd]] in Coventry. It went through four variants coded SA to SD.
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• Vanden Plas
  ...dependent on one car maker and supplied coachwork to such as [[Alvis Cars|Alvis]], [[Armstrong Siddeley]], Bentley, [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]], [[La ...s, although Vanden Plas could possibly be revived as a trim level on these vehicles as was done during the Austin-Rover and Rover Group eras, however this is o
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• British Leyland
  ...,000 people at 36 locations, and with a production capacity of one million vehicles per year :*Military Vehicles &ndash; [[Alvis plc|Alvis]] and [[Self-Changing Gears]]
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• Alvis 10/30
  |Marque = [[Alvis]] Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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• Alvis 12/40
  |Marque = [[Alvis]] Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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• Coventry Climax
  ...Limited (heavy-duty transmissions), into a new group called BL Commercial Vehicles (BLCV) under managing director [[David Abell]]. ==Climax-powered vehicles==
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• Classic Car Club of America
  ...celebrate the grand [[automobile]]s of the prewar period. At the time, the vehicles covered by the Club were considered too modern to be of any interest by suc Times have changed, of course, and the vehicles eligible for CCCA membership are now some of the most highly valued cars in
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• Fluid coupling
  .... Daimler and [[Alvis Cars|Alvis]] were both also known for their military vehicles and armoured cars, some of which also used the combination of pre-selector
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• Front wheel drive
  ...r]]s, where the engine drives the front [[wheel]]s. Most front wheel drive vehicles today feature [[transverse engine|transverse]] engine mounting, though many ...ts with front wheel drive cars date to the early days of the automobile. [[Alvis Cars]] of the United Kingdom introduced a front wheel drive model in 1928,
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• History of the automobile
  {{See also|History of steam road vehicles}} ...ted in passing a law, the Locomotive Act, in 1865 requiring self-propelled vehicles on [[highway|public roads]] in the United Kingdom be preceded by a man on f
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• Sports car
  ...two-seaters increasingly turned over to specialst manufacturers, led by [[Alvis]], [[Aston-Martin]], and [[Frazer-Nash]], with shoestring budgets, fanatic ...es associated with the long driveshaft and longitudinal engine found in FR vehicles. But due to its conservative effect on handling, particularly a tendacy tow
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• Amphibious vehicle
  ...lthough they ''are'' part of ''amphibious assault''. Nor are Ground effect vehicles, such as Ekranoplans. The former don't offer any real land transportation a ...ody configurations or other unconventional designs such as screw-propelled vehicles which use auger-like barrels which propel a vehicle through muddy terrain w
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• List of automotive superlatives
  ...o automobiles built after World War II, and lists superlatives for earlier vehicles separately. The list is also limited to production road cars that: ...use, and to transport people on public roads (no commercial or industrial vehicles are eligible);
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