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Ford Rheinland 1932. In March 1929 General Motors purchased a controlling 80% holding in Opel. Henry Ford's reaction was a prompt decision to build a complete Ford auto-factory in Germany, and before the end of 1929 a site at Cologne made available by the mayor of the city, Konrad Adenauer, [4] was acquired by Ford. [5]
Ford is cutting the work hours of about 2,300 workers at its manufacturing plant in Cologne, Germany, citing "rapidly deteriorating market conditions" for its electric vehicles.
Ford of Europe was founded in 1967 by the merger of Ford of Britain, Ford Germany, and Irish Henry Ford & Son Ltd divisions of the Ford Motor Company. The front-engined Ford Transit range of panel vans launched in 1965, was the first formal co-operation between the two entities, simultaneously developed to replace the German Ford Taunus Transit and the British Ford Thames 400E.
Ford had a subsidiary in Germany. In 1936, a Ford executive visiting Germany was informed by a Nazi official that Ford's Cologne plant manager was a Jew (he had one grandparent who was Jewish), prompting discussions at Ford offices in both Germany and the U.S. Heinrich Albert, Ford's Germany-U.S. liaison, insisted that the manager be fired.
U.S. automaker Ford plans to cut more than 5,000 jobs in Germany and will reduce its workforce in Britain as well as it seeks to return to profit in Europe, the company said on Friday. Ford has ...
Ford (F) plans to cut more than 5,000 jobs in Germany and slash workforce in the U.K. to reduce costs and revive the business in Europe.
The car was a German market designated Ford Model B. [1] The name comes from the German region of the Rhineland. In total 5575 of them were made. The engine, taken from Model B, was a four-cylinder, four-stroke 3285 cc giving 50 hp (37 kW) at 2800 rpm. This was the last model by Ford of Germany offering the big four-cylinder engine.
In February 2023, Ford announced that it was going to cut 3,800 jobs across Europe, with the job cuts mainly focusing on their German and British workforce. Ford will be cutting 2,300 jobs from Germany, 1,300 from the United Kingdom, and an additional 200 jobs in the rest of Europe, according to the head of Ford Germany, Martin Sander.