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As with many upmarket engineering companies of the time, Alvis did not produce their own coachwork, relying instead on the many available coachbuilders in the Midlands area, such as Carbodies, Charlesworth Bodies, Cross and Ellis, Duncan Industries ( Engineers ) Ltd, E. Bertelli Ltd, Grose, Gurney Nutting, Hooper, Lancefield Coachworks, Martin Walter Ltd, Mayfair, Mulliners, Tickford, Vanden Plas, Weymann Fabric Bodies, and William Arnold Ltd. Several cars also survive with quite exotic one-off bodywork from other designers such as Holbrook, a U. S. coachbuilder.
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In recent years George Street in the New Town has grown in prominence, with a large number of new, upmarket public houses and nightclubs opening, along with a number on the parallel Queen Street.
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It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.
The focus of the area is Kensington High Street, a busy commercial centre with many shops, typically upmarket.
It is the most upmarket part of Cheam commercially, with its shopping and catering facilities including Waitrose, Majestic Wine Warehouse, Costa Coffee, Prezzo and Pizza Express, as well as many independent establishments.
These are historically some of the more deprived in London with high crime rates and social problems, though some more upmarket housing developments are springing up as former industrial sites are cleared away as part of an ongoing rejuvenation process.
In the mid 1930s Pimlico saw a second wave of development with the construction of Dolphin Square, a self-contained " city " of 1, 250 upmarket flats built on the site formerly occupied by Cubitt's building works.
't Looy is an upmarket residential area in the woods with a wide variety of large villas and landhouses.
The company achieved success with the more modern and more upmarket Renault 16, a pioneering hatchback launched in 1966, followed by the smaller Renault 6.
Since Ford had surplus capital on hand from the success of the Ford Thunderbird, a plan was developed to move Lincoln upmarket, with the Continental broken out as a separate make at the top of Ford's product line, and to add another make to the intermediate slot vacated by Lincoln.
Land along the street also developed and became a well established neighbourhood as a result of the connections with industry and Edgbaston, an upmarket area.
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