Allard, Sydney, 1910-1966

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Automobile racing
(lcsh) Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction
Allard automobile

found: Revs Digital Library, viewed March 20, 2020:Monte Carlo Rally (Sydney Allard) - https://library.revsinstitute.org/digital/custom/single-image?id=290176&collection=p17257coll1

found: Kinsella, D. Allard, 1977 (subj.)title page (Allard) page 18, etc. (b. 19 June 1910; racing car manufacturer; d. 12 April 1966 at Esher, Surrey, Eng.)

found: Wikipedia, viewed March 20, 2020:Sydney Allard (Sydney Herbert Allard (19 June 1910-12 April 1966) was the founder of the Allard car company and a successful racing motorist in cars of his own manufacture. Born in London ... Sydney Allard died at his home Esher, Surrey on 12 April 1966.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Allard

found: Allard Owners Club WWW site, viewed March 28, 2024(Sydney Herbert Allard; began racing in 1929; during World War II he operated a large repair shop fixing army vehicles; at the end of the war he returned to competition, and restarted his car company; his final outing at the Monte Carlo Rally was in 1965; he is also considered by many to be the father of British drag racing)

found: British Drag Racing Hall of Fame WWW site, viewed March 28, 2024Members page (Sydney Allard; inducted 2007; he was was a Ford dealer who in the years before the Second World War produced his own "Allard Specials" using the 1930s Ford Flathead V8 engine; the specials became a range of sports cars using Cadillac engines as well as Ford units and in these he had success in some extremely diverse motor racing events, winning outright the 1952 Monte Carlo Rally; in the later 1950s, he turned to the component business and fitted Shorrocks superchargers to a wide range of engines; using American Chris Karamesines' Chizler rail as his model, he presented Europe with its first dragster, the Allard Chrysler, in 1961)