Allied separation

‘Swallow to be reborn’ (Lost & found, March) was most interesting because at one time I owned an Allied Swallow. The story goes that a group of guys in the early ’50s got together and obtained an MG TC chassis – I was told it was put together from a BMC parts bin in Ontario – and an Allied body. The car lived around the Buffalo area for several years and I recall, aged 11, seeing it run at a local hillclimb. Years went by and in the late ’50s or early ’60s a friend bought the car and disassembled it.

The MG frame had no number and there was some knackered engineering holding it together. A few years later my father and I bought the chassis to save it from the crusher. We had it a short time before someone else offered to buy it, and the Allied body, planning to restore the car. Another dead end.

After a few years in the service I returned home and one of my first purchases was an MG TC. When I needed a few spares, I contacted the person who bought the chassis and got it back. I sold the body without ever touching it.

Clifford J Lockrow

Hamburg, NY, USA