FORD DRIVE IN EUROPE
ERECTION OF BIG WORKS AT DAGENHAM COST OF £2,500,000 (United Service) LONDON. Friday. Mr. Edsel Ford, son of Mr. Henry Ford, today turned the first sod of the Ford works which are being erected at Dagenham, Essex, at a cost of £2,500,000. The firm expects to
employ 15,000 men, and to begin with an output of 300,000 cars a year. Four thousand men will he engaged in the construction of the plant, which will take three years to complete. The buiding of the Dagenham factory Is probably the beginning of the long-heralded intensive Ford drive irx Europe, because, simultaneously with the announcement of its commencement comes the news from Danzig that a Ford company is being established in Poland, with a capital of £2,000,000. This company will be affiliated with, the British Ford Company, and the factory will have an output of 2,500 cars a month. In addition to Poland, the European, factory will supply Rumania, Latvia and Esthonia. The Polish Government is co-oper-ating in the venture, having guaranteed to reduce the import duties on Ford car parts.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 9
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182FORD DRIVE IN EUROPE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 9
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