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Originally Posted by davidb
The radiator looks Ford/Fordson-ish.
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My initial reaction, too!
What presence did Ford have in Germany?
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Until 27 January 1950 all Ford's European operations other than in the USSR were run from Dagenham.
The earliest presence of the Ford Motor Company in Germany was a parts operation set up in Hamburg in 1912. It was not until 1925 that an assembly plant was constructed in Berlin where Model T trucks were made from imported parts.
In 1931 production moved to a new plant in Cologne on a site made available by the mayor of the city, Konrad Adenauer and from that time an increasing proportion of the Ford vehicles sold in Germany were also made in Germany rather than being imported.
With the outbreak of war, car production continued at first with the Taunus being made until 1942 but increasingly military production took over, building trucks and armed personnel carriers for the German armed forces. Most notably was the V3000 V-8 truck series.
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From Wiki.
Ford V3000:-
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