Thread: Fords in Aethiopia
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Old 10-12-08, 17:59
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Default The answer is probably...
...Ford Motor Company, Alexandria, Egypt!

I have found that in Autumn 1940 exchange control permission was given to purchase 337 non-specialist Fords from the Alexandria plant for the War office in the Mid-East, payable in US$. In addition, 184 3-ton tenders were purchased for the RAF towards their requirement of about 300 tenders. This was partly paid by $ in New York and partly by Egyptian £. This brings me on to a question: a tender was presumably a crash tender? I only know of WOT1 tenders...I wonder if Dearborn ordered Dagenham to supply Alexandria or does anyone know of any 3-ton RAF US Ford tenders?
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