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Allen Mite
Designed and built by Howard Allen
Glen "Howard" Allen lived in Pompton Plains, NJ and was an excellent machinist who was employed as the chief tool and die maker for the light bulb division of Westinghouse Electric. In the basement of his home, he constructed a 20' X 8' slot car track with banked turns where he hosted weekly races, often attracting competitors from over an hour away. In the summer, Allen turned his attention to racing gas powered miniature race cars.
The Allen mite car shown in the photos was one of three which were designed and built by Howard Allen. The car was patterned after the Kurtis Kraft Wynn's Friction Proofing Special which Johnnie Parsons drove to victory in the 1950 Indianapolis 500 race.
The car is powered by a McCoy 19 race car engine with a 1 3/4 : 1 ratio spur gear drive unit fabricated from a cast aluminum engine and rear axle mount which Allen designed. The front axle is mounted to a single lug cast into the bottom of the pan.
A circular "ARC Co" logo (which represented Allen's newly established enterprise, the Allen Race Car Company) was cast inside the pan near the front.
