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
Louis Wilkinson men". Thereafter Wilkinson lived in quiet retirement; his last published work was a contribution to a series of essays on the works of T.F. Powys which appeared in 1964; "Bumbore: a Romance", a short parody of John Cowper Powys's 1916 novel "Rodmoor", was not published until 1969, after Wilkinson's death. A second parody, this time of Henry James's 1897 novel "What Maisie Knew" – it was provisionally entitled "What Percy Knew" – was left incomplete; the available fragment was published privately later. Wilkinson enjoyed a brief return to the public arena with several BBC radio broadcasts of reminiscences, between February