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...Perry, English Ford generalissimo, opened hostilities when he offered especially to English investors shares of the $34,020,000 Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Similar offerings are being made by Ford companies on the Continent. But Great Britain & Ireland are now Ford's key sectors; his Manchester, Cork and Dagenham (capacity 200,000 cars annually; unfinished) plants are the most important overseas units; and Ford Motor Co., Ltd., is the greatest of the associated companies abroad...
...consequence, after these many wanderings, Mr. Ford has decided to locate his main British factory in Dagenham, ten miles from the heart of London. The new plant will employ 10,000 men, will turn out 500 cars a day. It will be the largest automobile plant in the British Isles, although small compared with existing Ford factories in Detroit...