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   Ford Plant in Cork being built in 1919. Henry Ford founded the company in Cork in Ireland, then part of the U.K., on 17 April 1917. This was the first factory Ford had purposely built outside of America anywhere in the world. He decided to build his first factory abroad in Cork because Ballinascarty, County Cork, was home to the Ford family for ...

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   Henry Ford & Son, Ltd. was established in Cork on April 17, 1917. Ford Motor Company was looking for a location in Europe to build Ford tractors as World War I had created a manpower and food shortage and tractors were needed to relieve labor needs and expedite food production.

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   Apr 20, 2017 · Ford Motor Company Chairman Bill Ford visits his family's ancestral home town of Ballinascarthy, Ireland, to mark the centenary of Ford in the country. The first Ford factory outside of North America was established in Cork in 1917 by Henry Ford & Son Ltd, the only Ford entity with the founder's name.

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   Henry Ford & Son, Ltd. wholesales and distributes new and used passenger automobiles, trucks, trailers, and other motor vehicles. Henry Ford & Son operates worldwide. Company profile page for ...

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   Is Henry Ford a real company?

   • The company that Henry Ford legally established in 1917 was entitled Henry Ford & Son Ltd., and that continues to be the legal name of Ford in Ireland to this day – the only Ford entity in the world to include the full name of the company’s founder in its title.

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   What happened to Henry Ford & Son Limited?

   • Henry Ford & Son Limited would remain at the ‘Marina’ until 1984, when the removal of protectionist tariffs (following Ireland joining the EEC in 1972) and increased international competition eventually forced them to close their doors.

   FEATURE: When Ford Motors came to Cork | Century Ireland - RTÉ

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   Why did Henry Ford buy Fordson tractors in Cork?

   • Edward Grace, managing director of Henry Ford & Son, realised it was uneconomical for Cork to rely solely on Fordson to survive, as it was more costly for distributors of Fordson tractors to buy stock in Cork than it would be if they were to buy in Dearborn Michigan. He also saw that Manchester needed extra production facilities for Model T cars.

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   When was Henry Ford incorporated?

   • In April 1917, the month following the British government’s announcement, Henry Ford & Son was officially incorporated as a limited company under the Companies Acts of 1908 and 1913. The name deliberately differed from the existing ‘Ford Motor Company’ which had been founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and was incorporated in 1906.

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8. www.ford.co.uk › experience-ford › newsOur Heritage - The Ford Motor Company Story | Ford UK

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   In the 1960s, Ford Europe was created by the merger of Ford of Britain, Ford Germany, and the Irish Henry Ford & Son Ltd. Its first vehicle was the front-engined Ford Transit van. Introduced in 1965, the Transit instantly became the van of choice for professionals.

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   Henry Ford formed an Irish subsidiary company, Henry Ford & Son Limited, in 1917. He opened a tractor plant in County Cork, Ireland, two years later. The factory soon began building components for Ford automobiles, and tractor production ceased in 1922. Tractors returned to the factory's lineup in 1929, but the depression ended Cork tractor production for good in 1932.