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Ford-Werke GmbH [1] is a German-based car manufacturing company headquartered in Merkenich-Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a fully-owned subsidiary of American Ford Motor Company . It operates two large manufacturing facilities in Germany, a plant in Cologne and a plant in Saarlouis , and serves as a major hub for Ford's presence in the ...
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.
The following is a list of current, former, and confirmed future facilities of Ford Motor Company for manufacturing automobiles and other components. Per regulations, the factory is encoded into each vehicle's VIN as character 11 for North American models, and character 8 for European models.
Retail holding company P A Tente International: Industrials General industrials Cologne: 1923 Wheels and castors P A Tetra: Consumer services Specialty retailers Melle: 1951 Fishkeeping supplies P A The Linde Group: Basic materials Speciality chemicals Munich: 1879 Industrial gas production and plant engineering P A Thonet GmbH: Consumer goods ...
For instance, Volkswagen sources 43% of its vehicles through Mexico, General Motors 22%, and Ford 15%. General Motors fell 5.5%, while Ford lost 3.9% and Tesla tumbled 5.4% in early trading.
Cologne Body & Assembly is a Ford Motor Company automobile factory in the Niehl quarter, Nippes district of Cologne, Germany, spanning 628,500 square feet (14.43 acres This factory is not to be confused with the smaller development and spare parts center to the north, in Merkenich, part of Chorweiler district.
Ford Saarlouis Body & Assembly (SB&A) is a major car plant located on the western edge of Saarlouis in the German Saarland. It belongs to Ford-Werke GmbH , the German subsidiary of the American automaker Ford Motor Company .
Karl Benz's 1885 Patent Motorwagen (replica). It is considered the world's first I.C.E.-driven car to be series-produced. Opel Olympia (1935–1937). Motor-car pioneers Karl Benz (who later went on to start Mercedes-Benz) and Nicolaus Otto developed four-stroke internal combustion engines in the late 1870s; Benz fitted his design to a coach in 1887, which led to the modern-day motor car.