Allard Motor Company

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Allard Motor Company

Industry	Automotive
Founded	1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Founder	Sydney Allard
Defunct	1958; 66 years ago (1958)
Fate	Insolvency
Headquarters	Clapham , England
Owners	(1946–1966) Sydney Allard
Website	www.allardmotorcompany.com

Allard Motor Company Limited was a London-based low-volume car manufacturer founded in 1945 by Sydney Allard^[1] in small premises in Clapham, south-west London. Car manufacture almost ceased within a decade. It produced approximately 1900 cars before it became insolvent and ceased trading in 1958.^{[citation needed]} Before the war, Allard supplied some replicas of a Bugatti-tailed special of his own design from Adlards Motors in Putney.^[1]

Allards featured large American V8 engines in a light British chassis and body, giving a high power-to-weight ratio and foreshadowing the Sunbeam Tiger and AC Cobra of the early 1960s. Cobra designer Carroll Shelby and Chevrolet Corvette chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov both drove Allards in the early 1950s.