Allard & Co. was a British manufacturing company, established in 1889 in
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its ...
by Frederick W. Allard and George Pilkington as cycle makers.
In 1898 the company produced a 3-wheel motorised
tricycle
A tricycle, sometimes abbreviated to trike, is a human-powered (or gasoline or electric motor powered or assisted, or gravity powered) three-wheeled vehicle.
Some tricycles, such as cycle rickshaws (for passenger transport) and freight trikes, ...
together with its first car. Car manufacturing started in 1899.
In 1901 the company merged with the
Birmingham Motor Manufacturing and Supply Co and was renamed as
Rex Motor Manufacturing Co.
Vehicles
Allard moved into the motor industry building a four-seater 4½
hp model based on the
Benz, followed by a 3 hp
air-cooled
Air-cooled engines rely on the circulation of air directly over heat dissipation fins or hot areas of the engine to cool them in order to keep the engine within operating temperatures. In all combustion engines, a great percentage of the heat ge ...
car with an engine said to be of their own manufacture.
In 1902 they offered a 9 hp single-cylinder
light car
The term light car is used in Great Britain since the early part of the 20th century for an automobile less than 1.5 litres engine capacity. In modern car classification this term would be roughly equivalent to a subcompact car. There are numero ...
.
See also
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List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
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British companies established in 1899
British companies disestablished in 1901
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1899
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1901
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