ALVIS SB 12-50
CAR NO 8232
Original Details: Chassis No: 2820 Engine No: 3172 Gearbox No: 2152 Rear Axle No: 2158(4.5:1 Spiral Bevel)
Lighting & Starting: Brolt. Magneto: BTH. Tyres; Dunlop 30 ×31⁄2 S
Completed O H chassis despatched to coachbuilders Cross & Ellis on 29th April 1924.
Fitted with polished aluminium 4-seater Super Sports body no 1045.
Returned to Works for final completion on 24th May 1924.
Despatched to export agents Tozer, Kemsley & Milbourn, 84 Fenchurch St, London EC3 on 13th June 1924.
Subsequent History as known to the Alvis Register Pre-War: The Register's records on this car are very sketchy and incomplete, but TVA2 records that the car was owned when new by Alfred W Fairfax (who we believe had served as a Motor Driver in Europe in WW1, and was the second owner of a Morgan-bodied 10-30 which is thought to have been the earliest Alvis to be imported into Australia). He seems to have had an association with the Sydney Alvis agents, Williams Bros Ltd, and competed in a number of road trials and similar competitions with some success, which brought useful publicity for the agents. There are one or two references to this in TVA2. Note especially p392 which records that Fairfax took third place in one of the handicap races at the opening meeting at Maroubra Speedway on 5 December 1925. Other references tell that in March 1926 he won the RACA Reliability Trial (see copy photo (with incorrect caption), and that in November of that year (by which time it seems that the car had been fitted with a lighter 2-seater body) he won his class and came second overall in another unidentified trial. There seems to be a suggestion that by this time the car had been fitted with a lighter 2-seater body.
Call 07973 731508
