Marques
Alvis of Coventry put four very different vehicles on one six-wheel-drive chassis — the Saracen personnel carrier, the 1,177 gun-armed Saladin armoured cars, the Salamander airfield crash tender and the amphibious Stalwart — and then, from 1973, built the tracked CVR(T) family, about 3,000 of them, which still serves in more than twenty countries. It is one of the few makers with major wheeled and tracked lines, and it later absorbed Land Rover's military arm and bought Hägglunds.
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All 2 Alvis marques by years in production, 1948 → today
One six-wheel-drive chassis, 1952–71, and four vehicles on it: the Saracen armoured personnel carrier, the Saladin armoured car with a 76 mm gun (1,177 built), the Salamander airfield crash tender (about 125) and the Stalwart, which carried five tonnes across country and swam on water jets.
About 3,000 built at Coventry from 1973 — 1,500 for Britain and about 1,500 exported: the 8-tonne Scorpion with a 76 mm gun, the Scimitar with a 30 mm RARDEN, and the Spartan, Samaritan, Sultan, Samson and Striker on the same hull. 72.5 km/h and 756 km, and the Guinness record for the fastest production tank at 82.23 km/h.
