[Javier de Luelmo - Diesel]

Hello Eric and David. Ford, after our war, was still for a time assembling vehicles at Barcelona, but there were a lot of troubles. For a time, there was a quite important number of 1940 model trucks waiting for vital pieces to be finished, but the government was not very helpful with all the paperwork and they remained unfinished for more than 5 years! I have some more info on this episode in an official book, but sadly I have loaned it to a friend in Madrid. One thing that also caught my attention was the very close relation between the Barcelona and Dagenham factories, I remember a number of pics from the BCN factory full of british models like Fordson 7V and the like. Due to all these problems and lack of interest from the government, Ford finally pulled out from the factory around 1945 and was nationalized, although still maintained relations (like later the production of the Ford Thames ET6). GM factory also had to close around 1942. And David, you are right, here it is your Maratón (Marathon). I would have thought the "tinwork" would had more in common with the Chevrolet, but it's quite peculiar to it.