Ford/Marmon-Herrington MGT's

[nuyt]

Thanks Robert, for the great info!

Do you know if the Detroit Public Library has info on the NPC orders? One of us will have to book an extended holiday then to Detroit...can we toss?

Otherwise, if I can make it in my schedules, I will try to visit the Dutch national Archives again on short notice and look for the NPC shipping lists that should at least partially be there.

David, the private company that shipped Fords to NEI was most certainly Lindetevis-Stokvis. This was one of the huge Dutch colonial trading firms that - though in different clothes - still has traces today (after many mergers and takeovers etc). I checked the Rdam Public Archives some weeks ago for the Stokvis branch (that was in Rotterdam just around the corner, Westzeedijk area) looking for their pre-war DAF and other exports to NEI, but to no avail.

The other half, Lindetevis, (van der Linden en Tevis?) was in Amsterdam I think. Within the NEI they had headquarters in possibly Batavia, but they had huge facilities in all major ports afaik. A picture of L-S in Batavia late forties shows some lines (but by no means impressive) of newly delivered vehicles.
However I think, L-S mainly supplied the civilian and public non-military markets, though from 1940 on (under state of emergency) they must surely have been involved in the military contracts.

Nuyt