 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.These were prototypes, but they formed the basis for the Lombard AL3 which followed a year later, and which was the manufacturer's first production model.The cars were developed by Edmond Vareille and used a "light voiturette" style.