Title
The British Ford - Facts from the Factory
Reference
YA1996.3230
Production date
-08-1924 - -08-1924
Creator
- Ford Motor Company LtdBiographyBiography
The Ford company was established in Great Britain in October 1910. In order to promote the company's desire to be seen as a company building cars for the British market using locally sources parts put together by local employees, the Ford Motor Company (England) Limited was established in 1911. At the same time the company moved from London to a new factory at Trafford Park, Manchester.
The success of the company continued and as a result larger premises were required, the company chose a site in Dagenham on the banks of the River Thames and eventually the new plant was opened there in 1931. The Trafford Park factory continued to operate whilst Dagenham was being built and as a shadow factory, during the Second World War, building Merlin engines until 1946, when production was stopped and the factory was sold.
Scope and Content
Booklet describing the early development of the Ford company and its vehicles in England, also descriptions and photographs of the various departments producing the parts of the vehicles prior to them being assembled at the Trafford Park factory.
Physical description
Fair
Language
English
Archival history
Archive provenance unknown
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Subject
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
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