Allard, better known for light sports cars produced a pilot run of around twenty glass-fibre bodied three wheeled Clipper microcar

Microcar

A microcar is the smallest automobile classification usually applied to standard small car . Such small cars were generally referred to as cyclecars until the 1940s. More recent models are also called bubblecars due to their egg-shaped appearance.-Definition:The definition of a microcar has varied...

s in 1953-1954. They had a rear mounted Villiers

Villiers Engineering

Villiers Engineering was a manufacturer of motorcycles and cycle parts, and an engineering company based in Villiers Street, Wolverhampton, England....

 24B 346cc single-cylinder two-stroke motorbike engine driving the rear left wheel via a Burman gearbox and chain.

The car was designed by David Gottlieb and was advertised as having an 'indestructible' plastic body made by Hordern-Richmond

Hordern-Richmond

Hordern-Richmond Aircraft Ltd was registered as a private company on 29 April 1937 with a nominal capital of £10,000 in 10,000 shares of £1. The objects were to carry on the business of manufacturers of and dealers in aircraft and aeronautical equipment...

 Ltd. It was the first ever car to have a plastic body. and seated three adults on a bench seat and two children in optional 'dickey seats' revealed when the rear boot was opened.

Cooling difficulties and driveshaft weakness made the Clipper very unreliable and the project was not continued - as of 2001 there were only three survivors