A car for the connoisseur

IN JOHN LE CARRÉ’S CLASSIC MOLE HUNT Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the former head of the MI6 “scalp hunters” Jim Prideaux takes a job at a prep school in the country. There he shelters under his wing a bespectacled, Bunterish boy, Bill Roach, whom he teaches to drive his beloved Alvis, which he calls “the best car in the world”. The sentiment was shared by the air ace, Sir Douglas Bader. He owned a series of TD21 drophead coupés, piloting them with the same panache as his Hawker Hurricane. “Make way for the quality,” he would roar whilst cutting up slow-moving motorists on his way home to Marlston, treating them with the disregard with which he might despatch a lumbering Dornier. Nothing says class quite like an Alvis. Bader, an avid…

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