Subsidiar o Ford Motor Company o the Unitit States | |
Industrie | Automotive |
Foondit | 1925 |
Foonder | Henry Ford |
Heidquarters | Richmond, Melbourne (Heid Office) Campbellfield, Melbourne (Asia Pacific Engineering Centre) |
Key fowk | Graeme Whickman CEO |
Nummer o employees | 1300[1] |
Wabsteid | [1] |
The Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited, kent bi its tradin name Ford Australia, is the Australie subsidiar o Unitit States-based automaker Ford Motor Company. It wis foondit in Geelong, Victoria, in 1925 as a ootpost o Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. At that time, Ford Canada wis a separate company frae Ford USA. Henry Ford haein grantit the manufacturin richts o Ford motor vehicles in the Breetish Empire (later the Commonweel), exceptin the UK, tae Canadian investors.
Ford Australia's first products wur Model Ts assembled frae complete knock-doun (CKD) kits providit bi Ford of Canada. Nivertheless, it is best kent in mair recent times for haein producit the Falcon, oreeginally a US model introducit in Australie in 1960, but adaptit tae Australie requirements an road condeetions.