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We hear a lot of anger from readers about the neglect and loss of America’s automobile history. We share it, too: Things are being lost that can never be recovered. The Big Three have only ever been halfhearted, at best, about conserving their heritage. When they could have afforded to do something, they didn’t, and […]
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Tagged brass cars, factories, featured posts, ford, Ford Model T, museums and collections, Piquette, preservation
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One of the several images that Ford of Britain has dug up from their archives to celebrate their centennial is the one above, in which Ford workers are assembling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. The aero engine assembly didn’t take place at Dagenham, rather at the factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, that Ford opened at the request […]
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Tagged factories, ford, Ford of Britain, March Military Campaign, military vehicles, Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, Trafford Park
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This week marks the centenary of the incorporation of Ford Motor Company (England) Limited, Henry Ford’s first overseas company. The paperwork was signed in London on March 8, 1911, and vehicle manufacture began later that year with the assembly of Model Ts in a former tramworks in the Manchester suburb of Trafford Park. By 1914, […]
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Tagged centenary, Dagenham, factories, ford, Ford Anglia 100E, Ford Model Y, Ford of Britain, Ford Popular, Hemmings Daily, Trafford Park