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The Alvis
Owners Club were in Town today (19th July 2008) to replace a plaque on
the former home and birth place of T. G. John the founder of the
Alvis company, at 6 Church Street Pembroke Dock. On hand to help affix
the plaque were Mr Andrew Robison Alvis Owners Club, Mr Bryan Carlisle
Alvis Owners Club Member Number 175 with his 1927 Alvis 1250 TG and the
Mayor of Pembroke Dock Councillor Ron Watts
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The once
world-famous Alvis Car and Engineering Company sprang to life in
Pembroke Dock, when local townspeople invested their savings in Thomas
John's venture as the First World War ended.
William Rees, who owned the Albion Square Bakery, led the investors and
helped support John's fledgling company through its difficult days. T.
G. John was
born in 6 Church Street but the family soon moved to 35 Queen Street and
later to 13 Argyle Street.
Thomas' school friend and fellow dockyard apprentice, Edgar Morse,
became his foundry superintendent and after a working life at the Alvis
retired to Chapel House in Albion Square where he died in 1963.
Ronald Lowless, Pembroke Dock's town clerk, was another who made an
important early contribution and later was made an Alvis director.
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