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Ford Australia
Australian automobile manufacturer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited (known by its trading name Ford Australia) is the Australian subsidiary of United States-based automaker Ford Motor Company. It was founded in 1925 as an Australian outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford in the US. Henry Ford had granted the manufacturing rights of Ford motor vehicles in the British Empire (later the Commonwealth) to Canadian investors.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Automotive |
Founded | 1925; 99 years ago (1925) |
Founder | Henry Ford |
Headquarters | Richmond, Melbourne (Head Office) Broadmeadows Assembly Plant (Asia Pacific Engineering Centre) |
Key people | Andrew Birkic (President & CEO) |
Products | |
Number of employees | 1,800 (2023)[1] |
Parent | Ford Motor Company |
Website | ford.com.au |
Ford Australia's first products were Model T cars assembled from complete knock-down (CKD) kits provided by Ford of Canada. Of the many models that followed, the best known was the Falcon produced from 1972 to 2016, originally a US model introduced in Australia in 1960 and eventually adapted to Australian requirements and road conditions.