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Ford Australia

The Cars and the People Who Built Them

by Doug Wallace and Michelle Cook
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/06/2016

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This book chronicles the 91 years in which Ford built cars in Australia for Australian conditions and interviews many of the people who worked for the company.

It constitutes the complete history of Ford production in this country, with many rare images and essential production statistics. The perfect book for every Ford enthusiast, or anyone with an affinity for cars or industrial Australia.

On March 31, 1925, US manufacturer Ford announced that Geelong would be the Australian headquarters of its local production. The first Australian-built Ford was a Model T that came off an improvised production line in a disused Geelong woolstore in June 1925, while work started on a factory in the nearby suburb of Norlane. In 1928 the factory switched to the Model A and was followed by the Ford V8 in 1932.

In 1956 the company bought a large tract of land in the northern Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows, and in July 1961 announced that the new Melbourne factory would become the company headquarters. On the 23 May 2013, Ford announced that its factories in Geelong and Broadmeadows would be closed down in October 2016.

ISBN:
9781742577081
9781742577081
Category:
Motor cars: general interest
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-06-2016
Publisher:
New Holland
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
256x275mm
Weight:
2.52kg

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