Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Anyone know what this vehicle is?

A detailed examination of bodywork features doesn't really help I'm afraid. Bear in mind that cars of this type were supplied by the factory in chassis form and shipped to a coachbuilder to fit a body of the customer's choice. Like Morgan today, no two are quite the same!

This Alvis is in the current edition of "The Automobile" magazine...



https://www.tomhardman.com/car/alvis-12-50-sd

It was bodied in Australia and has many similarities with both the "India" car and the one at Red Triangle, but of course, also many differences.

The main methods of identification are badges, bonnet mascots and radiators but sadly none of these is clear in the India photograph. As Chris says, the Alvis "hare" mascot is not present on the car in Neil's picture but that isn't unusual, owners often replaced them with their own.

Re: Neil's earlier question - I found this lengthy thread History of Cars in India. Apparently, General Motors, Ford, Austin and Wolseley all had assembly plants there in the thirties but car manufacture itself didn't begin until 1949 with Hindustan. The car in question isn't any of those.

This post has some interesting detail of one particular motor, which illustrates the problem of identification...

"Going back to the 1920's, I came across several newspapers which carried advertisements of automobiles. Many marques are obscure, some have only a few survivors left in the world, some are cause for puzzlement, others I cannot even find on the net. Here is one example of a Pullman Car. The advertisement was placed in The Statesman Calcutta in 1920..."



Alvis is my guess, based on the shape of the radiator and the faint outline of the triangle - but I'm happy to be proved wrong. A clearer or different picture of the same car might reveal more, or possibly the registration number might help?

Anyway, thanks for posting. It's a fascinating picture, it would be good to know more about it.