Allard Motor Company Employees up to 1965
| Employee Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Sydney Allard | ‘The Guv’nor’ |
| Alan Allard | Sydney’s Son – Head Office |
| Eleanor Allard | Sydney’s Wife – Director |
| Leslie Allard | Sydney’s Brother – Director |
| Dennis Allard | Sydney’s Brother – Leslie’s Twin Brother |
| Marion Allard | Sydney’s Daughter – Clerical/Sydney’s typist |
| Mary McDowell / May | Sydney’s Sister – Director (Married Eddie McDowell & Alan May) |
| Eddie McDowell | Head of Purchasing |
| Bobby Arthur | S1 Workshop – prepared Sydney’s cars |
| Malcom Arthur | Apprentice |
| Gerry Belton | Allard Motor Company/Adlards – Publicity |
| Colin Campbell | Drawing Office – Produced Parts Books/Workshop Manuals |
| Reg Canham | Workshop Manager, Managing Director |
| John Cunliffe | Apprentice |
| Ted Cutting | Draughtsman |
| David Davis | Export Manager |
| Day | Manager of Sales Team – 51 Upper Richmond Road |
| Dodswell | Compiled Factory Records |
| Zora Duntov | 1950 – Worked on Development of Arden conversion |
| John Farthing | Inspector/Works photographer |
| George | the Trimmer Worked at Encon and South Side – Seats & Head linings |
| Jean Goulding | Sydney’s Secretary/Typist |
| Bill Hilton | Director of Hilton Brothers (Coachbuilders) |
| Sidney Hilton | Director of Hilton Brothers (Coachbuilders) |
| David R. Hooper | Apprentice / Draughtsman/Chief Engineer |
| Charles Horsfield | Company Secretary |
| Dudley R. Hume | Chief Draughtsman / Chassis Designer |
| John Hume | S1 Workshop / Dragster |
| James Ingram | Body Designer / P2 Monte Carlo Saloon & Safari |
| P.J. Jackman | Various Posts – Encon Motors/Manager South Side / Director 1958 |
| Gil Jepson | S1 Workshop / Numerous experimental Allard projects |
| Tom Lush | Long time employee |
| Roberts Mackie | Worked with Alan Allard |
| Jim McCallan | S1 Workshop |
| Tommy McLaughlin | S1 Workshop |
| Jimmy Minnion | Fabricator – Park Hill Workshop |
| Paddy Murphy | A gifted fitter |
| Mike Perry | Apprentice |
| John Pitney | Worked for Encon Motors – Built J2 Bodies |
| Jack Pullen | Sales |
| Dick Read | Managed experimental section – Park Hill Workshop |
| Larry Richard | Director of US Allard Inc |
| Jim Saunders | Works Foreman – Park Hill |
| Noel Shorrock | Sales Rep for Allard Tuning Equipment |
| George Silcock | Head of car production/Electrical Section |
| Skatula | Shortened axle shafts and torque tubes |
| Stan the Welder | Gifted Welder – ardent Fulham supporter |
| L.H. Steele | UK Sales Manager |
| Peter Thoroughgood | Apprentice |
| Allan Tiley | Apprentice / worked at S1 on SHA Rally cars etc. |
| Bill Tylee | Managed Service Section – Upper Richmond Road & Keswick Road |
| Sam Whitingham | Owned Encon Motors |
David Rowland Hooper
I was born in Catford in 1932 and educated in Caterham, Surrey. Later I studied at Wandsworth Technical College obtaining a first class pass in City and Guilds M.V. Technology, Higher National Certificate in The Theory of Machines, Strength of Materials and Metallurgy. Accepted S.M.I Engineer in 1958. Served a 5 years apprenticeship with the Allard Motor Company and then 2 years in the Royal Airforce before rejoining the Allard Motor Company in 1957 to work in the drawing office, the Technical Department and then as Chief Engineer. I Joined the Greater London Council in 1965 being head of Automotive Engineering Group and held the position of Senior Fleet Engineer for the Inner London Education Authority until taking early retirement in 1991.
Achievements:
- In 1955 designed experimental McPherson type front suspension which was fitted to the works P2 Safari.
- Some of the thinking which went into this, was used on the Mk2 Palm Beach.
- The Atom dirt track car.
- The development of the David Gottlieb prototype Clipper – not sure this was an achievement but a job to be done.
- Modified a Ford Pilot rear axle to a fully floating axle for large engine stock car racing in the UK.
- Red Ram.
- Mk1 Palm Beach car’s component parts. For this model every item had detailed drawings which were costed with the hope that the ‘small’ Allard would be the company’s saviour – it was not to be!
- Design changes for the last three JR’s.
- Disc brake installation for the Mk2 Palm Beach/GT.
- Ford 105E disc brake conversion.
- Shorrock supercharger installations.
- BMC Ambulance suspension system.
- Sydney’s Steyr ‘Sports Car’.
- Sydney’s twin engined Steyr Four-wheel Drive ‘Sprint Car’.
- Chrysler dragster.
- Front wheel drive ambulance chassis.
- Wire wheel conversion kits for Ford Zephyr
