Alvis 12/60

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Alvis 12/60 Sports Tourer (1932)
Alvis 12/60 Sports Tourer (1932)
12/60
Production period: 1931-1932
Class : Middle class
Body versions : Limousine , roadster
Engines: Otto engine :
1.65 liters (38 kW)
Length: 3886 mm
Width: 1511 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 2845 mm
Empty weight : 1118 kg

The Alvis 12/60 was a passenger car that Alvis manufactured from 1931 to 1932 as a sports version of the 12/50 model .

The car had an in - line four - cylinder engine with overhead valves . In contrast to the 12/50 model, the engine with two SU carburettors with a displacement of 1645 cm³ made 52 bhp (38 kW) at 4500 rpm.

The 12/60 was available as a two-door sedan or two-door sports tourer (roadster). The front and rear rigid axles were suspended from semi-elliptical leaf springs. The TK and TL versions differ in their wheels. The maximum speed was approx. 120 km / h depending on the structure. By 1932, 229 had been made.

In the Alvis model range, the 12/60 in the narrower sense had neither a direct predecessor nor a successor. It took account of the fact that the 12/50 TJ model presented the year before was longer, more comfortable, heavier and therefore less sporty than its predecessor. The 12/60 indirectly continued the tradition of the sports model 12/50 SD, which was discontinued in 1929, and the short front-wheel drive models FWD FA and FD , which were intended as successors , but, unlike these, no longer fit into the popular 1.5-liter class, which also was significant for motorsport. On the other hand, the 12/60 covered the gap that emerged at the end of 1930 when the sporty six-cylinder model Silver Eagle SD was replaced by the longer and more comfortable Silver Eagle SE. After the 12/60, Alvis did not take up the tradition of a relatively compact, sportier four-cylinder model until 1937 with the 12/70 .

swell

  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 , pp. 35-40

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alvis 12/60 TK / TL . Motorbase - The Home of Classic Car Information. Retrieved August 6, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Alvis 12/60  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Alvis 12/60 boat rear roadster (1932)