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 […]
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 […]
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, […]