Ford Motor Company of Rhodesia

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Ford Motor Company of Rhodesia
legal form Proprietary Limited Company
founding 1961
resolution 1967
Seat Rhodesia South 1923Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia :
Willowvale , Salisbury (Harare)
Branch Automobile manufacturer Commercial vehicle manufacturer

Ford Motor Company of Rhodesia (Pvt.) Limited was an automobile , utility vehicle and tractor manufacturer based in Salisbury , the former capital of the British overseas colony of Southern Rhodesia .

history

The company was founded in 1961 as a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Canada . £ 1.5 million has been invested in the construction of the plant.

Vehicles produced included the Anglia and Zephyr models , Thames Trader trucks, and Fordson Dexta tractors.

After the unilateral declaration of independence in 1965, Ford lost access to its export markets, so that production stagnated and Ford had to close in February 1967, as did BMC of Rhodesia a little later. In the same year Ford sold the remaining stocks of materials to the Rhodesian government and withdrew from the country.

The plant later became Willowvale Motor Industries and at times Willowvale Mazda Motor Industries .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tom Østergaard, SADCC Beyond Transportation: The Challenge of Industrial Cooperation , Nordic Africa Institute, 1989
  2. ↑ a b c Fidelity Mhlanga: Economic crunch hits Mazda Motors , in: Zimbabwe Independent from May 22, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Chenghua Yu: The transferability of Japanese production system in Zimbabwe: A case study of Willowvale Mazda Motor Industries , University of Tokyo 2012.
  4. ↑ George Hindley, 50 Years with Ford: Duly & Co., Ltd , Bulawayo 1961.
  5. ↑ Rhodes Ford on svammelsurium.blogg.se
  6. ^ William Minter / Elizabeth Schmidt: When Sanctions Worked: The Case of Rhodesia Reexamined , in: African Affairs 87, No. 347, (1988), pp. 207-237.
  7. ^ BMC shuts plans in Rhodesia , in: The Glasgow Herald, March 31, 1967.