Ford of Britain celebrates 100 years

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, […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1934 Ford Model Y

Following the excellent gallery of photos from the Oakland roadster show in the 1980s, we got to wondering whatever happened to most of those show cars from that era. With the amount of time and energy invested into them, they surely haven’t been crushed, and we can’t imagine many of them seeing regular street use, […]