[3] Bad feeling between the two continued to fester and in 1923 André Lombard left Salmson: the agreement covering his departure included a five-year "non-competition clause".

[3] Lombard accordingly devoted his energies to competition driving, but he evidently never entirely lost his appetite for automobile manufacturing, and in defiance of the five year clause, just four years after leaving Salmson he presented, at Montlhéry, his first model, the Lombard AL1, accompanied by two Aerodynamic ("tank" bodied in the parlance of the time) AL2s.

[2] Various addresses in the Paris area were associated with the production of the automobiles: the registered head office was at Puteaux.

When production ended in 1929 it was BNC that acquired the components inventory and a number of half finished Lombards.

[5] Models produced included the following: Bill Lowe drove a Lombard AL3 in the 1929 Australian Grand Prix,[6] placing third outright and winning the 901cc to 1100cc class.