TVR TVR TVR is an independent British manufacturer of high-end sports cars. The company manufactures lightweight sports cars with powerful engines and was, at one time, the third-largest specialised sports car manufacturer in the world, offering a diverse range of coupés and convertibles. The abbreviation TVR stems from the name of the company's owner Trevor Wilkinson, his first garage sporting the letters T, V and R. The history of TVR can be divided into several eras, each of which is associated with the company's owner at the start of that period: Trevor Wilkinson (14 May 1923 – 6 June 2008) was
Oliver Green-Wilkinson eleven years he was additionally elected Archbishop of Central Africa. A fierce opponent of apartheid and a naturalized Zambian, he was killed in a car crash. Green-Wilkinson was born on 7 May 1913 in the Rectory at Aston Tirrold, the second of five children - Deborah, Oliver, Prudence, Hilare and John. His father was the Rev. Lumley Green-Wilkinson, the younger son of Lt.Gen. Frederick Green-Wilkinson, C.B., Colonel of the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry in the early 1900s; he had served with the 42nd Highland Regiment, The Black Watch, in the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. The name Wilkinson was