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Sidney H Allard starting building his own designs in 1937 at Adlards Motors Ltd, Putney, South London. In 1946 he left to form Allard Motor Company Ltd at Clapham. Adlards continued as Ford dealers.

Pre-war Allards consisted of a few V8 and V12 specials that were well respected in trials.

After the war all models were designed to take non-standard power units if the customer wanted and many were sold in America.

Until the mid 1950's most Allards were fitted with the side-valve Ford V8 engine and when this was no longer available other Ford units were used, such as the Consul or Zephyr 1508 cc and 2262 cc.

In 1953 David Gottlieb's Powerdrive company needed someone to manufacture their new three wheel car which was to became the Allard Clipper. A separate company, Allard Clipper Company Ltd, was formed. Engineer Gilbert Jepson constructed a prototype chassis incorporating many commonly available parts. A Villiers 346cc single-cylinder engine drove the left-hand rear wheel and Hordern-Richmond of Haddenham made the fibreglass body. The first bodyshell was received on the 19th March 1954 and by 15th April the first car had been registered and licensed. This car became Allard's test bed. The production Clipper had two seats with a dickey seat. By early 1955 Hordeen-Richmond wanted to charge more for the bodies and the non-arrival of a body on 24th June 1955 seems to have hastened the demise of the Clipper. Of the original intended run of 100 cars, only 22 were completed. Two are known to have survived, one in Germany, one in the UK.

After 1960 Allard stopped producing vehicles under their own name and built specials based on the recently introduced Ford 105E Anglia and sold them as the Allardette 105, 109 and 116.

During the 1940's and 1950's the models pre-fix indicated the body style:-
J - Two-seat Sports.
K - Two-seat Tourer.
L - Four-seat Tourer.
M - Drop-head Coupe.
P - Saloon.

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