FORD MOTOR CARS
LARGE FACTORY 'IN ENGLAND
(United ‘Press Association —By Electric . .Teieg. apli—Copyright.)
LONDON, August 27.
The great factory whicp the Ford organisation is building at Dagenham. Essex, is a definite bid in anticipat.oii of - retfirning prosperity. Situated on the banks of the Tmunes qn’te ciost to'•London, the factory, in the space e : three years, lias been made into th ;largest • motor undertaking in Eurcp . With the completion of the pans, t’-v works: will be able fo build motor-cars at the rate of two a minute, or 200. nrt a; (year, and will eventually employ 15.000 men. Even whii'e the work y' building construction is stdl in progress the output of motor-cars is at the ra' -of ■ one; every three, minutes. . ;The' engineering shops cover twentyeight ' agios, and the floor covering of k'bfv taiida is one .unbroken bed t weighing 100,000 tons and reinforced bv 2500 miles ot steel.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1932, Page 6
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150FORD MOTOR CARS Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1932, Page 6
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