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Originally posted by David_Hayward
A bit of very interesting history:
FORD-WERKE A.G was a corporation organised under the laws of Deustchland. FORD INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED of Guernsey, British Channel Islands which was a wholly owned subsiary of FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED of Dagenham [actually London] owned RM 2 million par value shares in FORD-WERKE whose capital was RM 32 million. In addition FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED owned RM 20,000 in FORD-WERKE. FORD MOTOR COMPANY of Dearborn owned 59.136% of FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED.
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Reminds me of the efforts Ford USA put into trying to play down its ties with Ford Werke because of a claim for their responsibility for the use of forced labor during WW2 a few years back - see
Research Findings About Ford-Werke Under the Nazi Regime.
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Ford-Werke had in storage at the PAPLER KAROSSERIEWERK GmbH in Koln-Niehl 83 completed driver's' cabs ...
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As for Papler, they also used forced labour making large numbers of wooden cargo beds and that typical wooden
Einheits-Fahrerhaus for Ford G987T and V3000S trucks (see pics
here), as well as radio bodies for Ford V8-51 chassis.
H.