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Ford Motor Company India Bibliography

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Please note: Activities in India were handled through Ford of Canada and these records are not held by the Benson Ford Research Center. 

Archival

• Acc. 880 Mira Wilkins Research Notes
  • box 4 FMC – India & FMC Canada - Overseas
     
• Acc. 713 International Division - Russell Roberge
  • box 3 Folders 1-47 thru 1-58 (figures for operations in India mostly between 1947 - 1950)
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• Acc. 1790 Ford Motor Company, Ltd. Collection, 1903-1990 
  • box 22 India, Calcutta, Showroom and Service Station, circa 1930 
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• Acc. 226 Public Relations Fiftieth Anniversary Records, 1951-1953
  • box 6 Ford International – Publications – India
     
• Acc. 38 Charles E. Sorensen Office Files and Personal Records Subseries
  • box 41 1939 – India
  • box 94 1942 – India 
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• Acc. 93.1.380 Ferguson vs. Ford Motor Company Records 
  • box 2 Ford Overseas Tractor Operations – India 1923, 1926
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• Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
  • box 1147 Branches – Foreign – India 
  • box 1315 Foreign Branches – India 
  • box 2141 India 
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• Small Accessions
  • Acc. 804 Public Relations, Ford Farm Efficiency Award Program

Ford Times

• Sales – Foreign – India, v.5, p.41
• Calcutta, India, v.5, p.279
• Sales – Foreign – India, v.6, p.459-460, 515 
• Sales – Foreign – India, v.7, p.261
• Sales – Foreign – Madras, India (picture), v.7, p.504-505, 512
• Sales – Foreign – India, v.8, p.138
• Sales – Foreign – India, v.10, p.166

Ford News

• Ford World Notes: In India (Model A), 1928, 8:21:200:1
• India - Synonym for Power, 1929, 9:10:111:3
• Missionary in India Uses Ford, 2:18F:8:4, 3:12L:8:4
• Watch India, 1924, 3:15F:1+:2,4:9L:1+:2
• Firefighting - India (Oil company uses engines for centrifugal pumps},18:3:70:2
• Ford World: Sayajiganj, India (Fordson tractor), 2:24F:6:2,3:18L:6:2
• India - Canada Serves the Empire, 1935, 15:5:92: 1
• India - Review of 1921 Shows Year of Good Progress, 1: 12F:4+:1-2, 2:6L:4+:1-2
• India Faces New Era as Ford Methods Are Studied (Indian students), 3:8F:5: 1-4
• Ford Service Everywhere (Photo of plant), 12:3:18:1-2
• Ford World: Bombay (How to sell in India), 2:2F:1+:2, 2:20L:1+:2 
• Ford World Notes: In Hindustan (Demonstration and parade), 11:1:8:2-3
• Ford World Notes: Guest House (Oakes and Company), 10:5:56:2
• New Plant at Madras (Procession at opening), 11:7:10:3

Oral Histories

• 65_52 George Dickert (worked for FMC of Canada – discusses business in India)

Books

• American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents. Mira Wilkins & Frank Ernest Hill 
     338.476292 F699 W685 2011