Carrosserie Hermann Graber built their first Alvis body in 1946 and by 1953 were the Swiss distributor for Alvis Cars.

In 1955 they produced the first Graber-bodied prototypes based on an Alvis chassis.

After Alvis designer G.T.

Smith-Clarke left the company, in 1955 Graber showed his Alvis TC 21/100 ‘Grey Lady' to the company, a design which combined classical elegance with a modern ponton style body.

Alvis were impressed by the design and similar bodies went into series production, built under licence by two British firms, initially Willowbrook and later the famous Rolls-Royce coachbuilder Park Ward.

With their much larger production capacity, Park Ward took the Swiss drawings and adapted them to produce a car with more interior space than the Graber original.

The Alvis TD21 and all subsequent models - TE, TF saloons and drophead couples all followed the basis of Graber's original design.

In Switzerland Graber continued to build to customer order special-bodied cars based on ...