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Allard Motor Company: The Records and Beyond
by Gavin Allard
Available Worldwide!
The Allard Motor Company archives are a particularly rich resource for those investigating its history and its influence on the British motor industry. The records cover the years of operation of the car manufacturer 1946-1958 and have been scanned and included in this book along with many previously unseen official photographs, documents, and correspondence.
Supported by an easy-to-use reference spreadsheet, an Allard owner is invited to open to the pages where their car is featured, and a casual observer can learn about the indelible impact this small British car manufacturer made on motoring history.
Author, Gavin Allard the grandson of Sydney Allard, the man who led the company into post-war Britain and beyond, details the people that built the cars, the dealerships that sold them and their customers.
- Page Size 290mm x 230mm
- 1,313 images
- 736 total pages
- 2 volumes with hard covers and dust jackets in a slipcase
Thank you, Jürgen Lewandowski for the review in the MotorWorld Bulletin.
Translated text:
Admittedly, the Allard brand is not that well-known here in Germany - although Sydney Allard created a considerable number of impressive sports cars between 1946 and 1966, which were also among the fastest in motorsport. Allard began in 1936 with a model called “Special” that was built in very small numbers, but after the company took over the premises of the body manufacturer Southern Motor Company in Clapham in 1945, where from 1946 onwards the J1 racing car was first built was assembled, which was followed by other, more comfortable models such as the K1 and the four-seater L and M models. What they all had in common was the use of a 3,622 cc V8 engine from Ford, which was already an announcement in the first post-war years when the competition relied on small engines. With the J2 from 1950, Allard presented a high-performance roadster with an aluminum body that was hard to beat on the race tracks with its De Dion rear axle and large American eight-cylinder engines from Mercury, Cadillac and Chrysler. Allard gained a loyal group of buyers, especially in the USA, with competition including the Jaguar XK 120 and the much more expensive Italian exotics - and Porsche also quickly gained loyal buyers as the underdog. Gavin Allard, the grandson of the company founder, has created the ultimate work on the underrated brand with his two-volume, monumental work on Allard on 736 pages and more than 1,300 illustrations (including hundreds of pages with illustrations of the original delivery books). A fantastic book that conclusively deals with the topic of “Allard” for the coming decades. The publisher Dalton Watson is also great because it deals extensively with the niche topic.
Thank you, Sabu Advani, for your review on Speedreaders.info!
Click image to go to the review on Speedreaders.info
Classic Cars, September 2023
Classic & Sports Car, August 2023
Motor Sport, August 2023
The Automobile, July 2023
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Allard Register, July 2023
Click on the image to be sent to the Allard Register web page
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Not the type of book that you are expecting 
Incredible.