Ford Motor Company of Canada

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Ford Motor Company of Canada

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legal form Limited
founding 1904
Seat Oakville, Ontario , Canada
management Dianne Craig (CEO)
Number of employees 23,500
Branch Automobiles
Website www.ford.ca

The Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited is a company from Canada .

Oakville plant and headquarters

description

The company was founded in 1904 to build and sell Ford automobiles in Canada and the British Commonwealth . The Ford Motor Company in Detroit transferred patents and sales rights to the Walkerville Wagon Company in order to circumvent the customs regulations for states that were not part of the British Empire. The company was originally known as Walkerville Wagon Works and was located in Walkerville, now part of Windsor in the province of Ontario . The company's president, Gordon McGregor , convinced a group of investors to donate money to Henry Ford's new idea of ​​the automobile, which was being made across the river in Detroit.

On August 17, 1904, the Canadian Ford subsidiary was founded in Walkerville. The new company had been granted all patent and sales rights for all states of the British Empire, with the exception of Great Britain and Ireland . The Model C , the first automobile made in Canada, left the assembly line in late September 1904. You could manufacture two cars at the same time and in the first full business year (1905) 117 automobiles were built. The first export vehicle was delivered to Calcutta in India . Even today the company is one of the most important manufacturing companies in Windsor.

With the increase in sales after the Second World War , the Canadian Ford subsidiary decided to relocate its headquarters to Oakville, Ontario and build a new assembly plant there. It was opened in 1953. To meet the ever increasing sales figures, the company built another assembly plant in Talbotville in 1967 .

Ford has always been one of the strongest companies in Canada, and in fact, it was the largest company in the country by the 1970s. In 2004 the company celebrated its 100th birthday, one year after the parent company, which was founded in 1903.

Since 2010, Ford has been involved in a dispute over a new gas-fired power plant to be built on 6 hectares of land on the Oakville site and operated by TransCanada . Ford has been asked by local residents and politicians not to pursue the plans further, as many fear for the health and safety of local residents. Since the catastrophic explosion of a gas-fired power plant in Middletown (Connecticut) in 2010 and the propane gas explosion in Toronto in 2008, many have been calling for a buffer zone for such power plants and therefore consider the Ford site unsuitable for this purpose, as private houses and schools are in the immediate vicinity.

The current CEO is Dianne Craig. William H. Osborne served as Chairman from 2005 until he was replaced by Eagle in February 2008.

Frontenac brand

In 1960 there was the brand name Frontenac for a model. It was based on the Ford Falcon .

List of current Ford plants in Canada

plant place Employee Opening year Closing year Remarks
Oakville Assembly Plant Oakville, Ontario 3820 1953 Head office
Windsor engine plant Windsor, Ontario 1850 1978 Produces Triton engines for Super Dutie, Econoline, Expedition and the Navigator.
Essex Engine Plant Windsor, Ontario 542 1981 Reopened in late 2009 Manufactures engines for the Ford Mustang and F-150.
Windsor Aluminum Mill Windsor, Ontario 940 1992 Produces the Duratec block

List of previous Ford factories in Canada

plant place Opening year Closing year Remarks
Windsor foundry Windsor, Ontario 1934 May 30, 2007 Tore off.
Essex Aluminum Mill Windsor, Ontario 1981 February 13, 2009
Ontario truck plant Oakville, Ontario 1965 2004 reopened as part of the Oakville car plant
St. Thomas assembly plant St. Thomas, Ontario 1968 September 2011
Walkerville plant Windsor, Ontario 1904 1953 near Riverside Drive East 3001 - former Canadian headquarters and largest assembly plant, also known as “Plant 1”.
Demolished in 1969 and now wasteland across from the Fleming Channel

Models currently in production

Earlier models

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ford.ca About Ford Of Canada> Operations. Accessed January 4, 2014.
  2. ↑ www.bloomberg.com to Ford Motor Co (F: New York Consolidated) (English)
  3. ^ Barry Eagle, the New President of Ford Motor Company of Canada (video). Car News, p. 1. Auto 123
  4. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 570 and 595. (English)
  5. ↑ works. Ford Motor Company News Room. Media.ford.com ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / media.ford.com