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Alvis Stalwart HMLC, Amfibiebil 101, Bedford & BV202 History - and Free; User guides, Service, Workshop Maintenance and Repair PDF File Download Site. Home of the Vehicle Manuals Library (V.M.L.)
This website has eight main sections, which have relevant history, and PDF files in them to download.
Alvis Stalwart H.M.L.C. 6x6 Truck Cargo.
Alvis F.V. wheeled section - Saladin, Salamander, Saracen.
Alvis F.V. tracked military vehicles.
Vehicle Manuals Library - of many makes.
Bandvagn BV202 and BV206.
Bedford Commercial vehicles.
British Military portable cooking.
British Military vehicle records.
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This website is run entirely as a hobby and in my spare time, it is paid for out of my own pocket. Should you wish to leave a small donation towards the upkeep and ongoing running of the website, it is really appreciated. Thank you
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This website was setup to share workshop manuals and user guides free of charge outside of Facebook, for the Alvis Stalwart - to help keep the remaining few out of the scrap yards. It now has a growing collection of manuals for Bedford trucks, and the Volvo Bv202.
As part of the research into these vehicles, I've gathered a lot of images of Alvis Stalwarts, Bedfords and BV202 - all taken from public websites and Facebook groups. Apologies to anyone offended by my sharing their brilliant photos to help record these vehicles histories.
Thank you to the contributors
I must give a massive thank you to every single person who has posted or emailed any files, documents, and photos to me. There are too many to name. This Alvis Stolly preservation and archive project would not be what it is without your generous help and donation.
A special mention must go to Mark Chapman, for rescuing much Alvis documentation and drawings from Coventry, to Bruce Pilbough for donating his Stalwart collection, to David Tite for letting me crawl all over his vehicles, and all those who freely provided rare documents, Andy, Ian, Marty, Neil, etc. And a thanks to Geoff Fletcher and Wally Dugan. If I've not named you then it's not personal, but thank you.
To our Swedish Amfibiebil 101 friends. To name a few, a thank you to; Stefan Karlsson, Stellan Englund, and Magnus Freij, and especially to Emil Gustavsson for the Floating trailer 803 photos.
Also to all the Bedford and BV202 donations, especially David Bradley and Stuart Lee, and the Swedish BV202 websites.
Welcome to the HMLC Alvis Stalwart and Bedford - Files Website
I believe in the free exchange of manuals - to help keep old vehicles out of the scrap yards.
You are welcome to download the files offered here. I would hope that you would offer any files that you have or know of in this free exchange.
Website Quick Links - if you wish to jump ahead of the Navigation;
Click here for an explanation of EMERs, Army Code Numbers and AESP publications
Explains how the British Army number their files
Click here to view some history files on Bedford Commercial Motors
This is the first page of the Bedford section, and includes some articles by David Bradley and more.
Click here for the Volvo Bandvagn Bv202/203
This page has information and various downloads, in a number of languages.
Click here for an article on the history of the Punt hull - High Mobility Chassis
A page on how the Punt hull came about, which ended up underneath the Stalwart
Click here to read about the development of the Alvis Stalwart
This page looks at how the Stalwart developed. It is the first true page of the Stalwart section
Click here for the HMLC Alvis Stalwart maintenance Page
with previews of the files, which pop out in a new window
Click here for the HMLC Alvis Stalwart files and mauals page.
This is a quick load page for people with slow internet, which just shows the file names and description.