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| Industry | Automotive |
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| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | Sydney Allard |
| Defunct | 1958 |
| Fate | Insolvency |
| Headquarters | , England |
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| Website | www |
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.