Bibliography: Ford Motor Company Ltd. pre-1931 and Trafford Park, Manchester Plant

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Ford Motor Company Ltd. pre-1931 and Trafford Park, Manchester Plant Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ. For further information on Ford of England, please see Ford Motor Company Dagenham Research Guide and Bibliography.

Archival

  • Acc. 204 Other Operations Accounting Records
    • box 3 Plants - Foreign. Manchester (England) Inventory 1914
       
  • Acc. 106 Ford Motor Company Max L. Weismyer Branch Operations Records
    • Manchester plat plan (digital file, original at Ford Motor Company Archives)
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  • Acc. 260 Financial Reports Records
    • box 40 Branch Statements - Manchester England, 1915-1916
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  • Acc. 261 Ford Motor Company Ltd. Records
    • box 1 Consolidated Balance Sheets of England and Associated Companies, 1929, 1930, 1931
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  • Acc. 282 European Branch Reorganization
    • box 1 Reorganization of Ford Motor Company, Ltd., England
      • Correspondence, 1929-1939
      • Financial Records, 1928-1933
      • Financial Reports, 1928-1930
    • box 2
      • Holmes, Paul & Havens Correspondence, 1929
      • Perry's Report, 1928
      • Tax Receipts & Tax Correspondence, 1928-1930
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  • Acc. 680 Building Construction and Maintenance Records
    • box 2
      • Schedule of amounts of cloth used in Manchester & Cork plants per month
      • Number of cars made per day (by body type) at Antwerp, Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Cork, Manchester, and Barcelona
      • Amounts of leather, cotton & wool cloth used at Barcelona, Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Cork, Manchester and Antwerp. No date
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  • Acc. 157 CL Martindale Otto H Husen Files
    • box 203 Manchester Plant Correspondence, 1925-26, 1930
    • box 264 Branch Plant Costs; Cork and Manchester
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  • Acc. 58 Subject Files Subseries
    • box 1 Prospectus Ford Co. Ltd., 1928
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  • Acc. 478 Ford Motor Company Ltd.
    • box 1 Ford Motor Company Ltd. (England)-Corporate Papers, 1911-1913
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  • Acc. 2004.1.879 Ford Motor Company Foreign Operations Records
    • box 2
      • Ford Credit Company (England) Ltd. Folio
      • Ford Credit Company (England) Limited - Minute Book
      • Briggs Motor Bodies Limited Folio
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  • Acc. 62 Henry Ford Office Papers
    • box 20 Manchester (Sir Perry)
    • box 56 Manchester, England, 1914-1915
    • box 107 Perry, Sir Percival
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  • Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
    • box 9 England, 1921
    • box 29 England, 1921
    • box 60 England, 1922
    • box 99 England, 1922
    • box 133 England, 1923
    • box 177 England, Ltd, 1923
    • box 238 England, 1924
    • box 371 C 152 (includes Elkins Cooperage Company matter re: lumber shipments to Manchester, England), 1925
    • box 385 England, 1925
    • box 497 Manchester, England, 1926
    • box 636 Manchester, England, 1927
    • box 664 LE660 T-Z 669 (includes Sir William Letts, English Managing Director of Willys Overland Crossley, re: selling stock of Ford Motor Company of England to English public), 1927
    • box 796 Manchester, England, 1928
    • box 970 England, 1929
    • box 1147 England, 1930
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  • Acc. 23 General Personal Records
    • box 6 Perry, Percival, 1917-1941
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  • Acc. 6 Edsel B Ford Office Papers
    • box 275 Manchester (2 folders) (Sir Percival Perry, FMC Ltd., Manchester, England, includes correspondence, blueprints and photos), 1929
    • box 278 Manchester (includes Sir Percival Perry, FMC, London; monthly stock order form), 1930
    • box 282 Manchester (2 folders) (includes Sir Percival Perry; data sheets; memos; Associated Equipment Co. Ltd catalogs; FMC Ltd Aircraft Department; photos of dealer showrooms in Spain), 1931
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  • Acc. 38 Charles Sorensen Papers
    • box 1 England; Manchester, 1929
    • box 2 England; Manchester, 1930
    • box 5 England; Manchester, 1931
    • box 46 Grace, Edward, and Sir Percival Perry Correspondence, 1919-1921
    • box 111 Gehle, T. F. (Manchester, UK)
    • box 113 Perry, Sir Percival, 1928
    • box 115 Perry, Sir Percival (2 folders), 1929
    • box 117 Perry, Sir Percival, 1930
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  • R.C. 6 Engineering and Blueprint Aperture Card Collection
    • drawer 4 Plants; England, Trafford Park, Manchester
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  • Acc. 494 Victor J Perini Papers
    • box 1 Manchester, England, 1924-1925
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  • Acc. 1790 Ford Motor Company Ltd. Collection
    • box 49 Photographic prints; Trafford Park, circa 1910
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  • Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File
    • box 19 Assembly Line Methods – Automobiles – Ford Motor Co. – England – Manchester
    • box 124 Ford Motor Company – Buildings – England – Manchester
    • box 135 Ford Motor Company – Employees – 1910-1919 – England – Manchester
    • box 141 Ford Motor Company – Freight and Freightage – England – Manchester
    • box 144 Ford Motor Company – Tractors – Fordson – Buildings – England – Trafford Park

Periodicals

Ford Times (U.S.)

  • "My Experience with the Ford in England." March 1910, v.3, n.11, p.220-221
  • “Body Making at our Manchester Plant.” June 1912, v.5, n.8, p.247
  • Photographs of Manchester Factory and Administration Building, August 1912, v.5, n.10, p.346-347
  • “The Ford in England." April 1914, v.7, n.7, p.293-297
  • Manchester Branch Photographs. May 1914, v.7, n.8, p.358-359
  • Photograph of Final Assembly Conveyer at Manchester Plant. October 1916, v.10, n.3, p.110

Ford News

  • Feature Notes Told Throughout the Ford World, 1:2:2+:4
  • Manchester Plant Breaks Production Record in 1920, 1:7:1:3-4 
  • Do You Know a Good Thing When You See It?, 1:11:2:1-3
  • Strikes Gripping England, Harmony at Ford Plant, 1:12:1+:1
  • September Good Month (Production 1921), 1:6F:1:4, 1:24L:1:4
  • New Ford Company in England Is Launched, 8:26:254:1  
  • Important Strides Made by Company in 1928, 9:1:3:l-3
  • Future Ford Offices in London, 9:9:98:2-3
  • Photo of the headquarters, 10:11:121:2
  • English Head Offices in Attractive Home, 10:13:146+:1-2
  • 1930 Was Year of Expansion and Development, 11:1:2+:1-3
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  • See also:
    • Ford Plant (Manchester, ENG)
    • Fordson Plant (Manchester, ENG)

Oral Histories

Vertical File

  • Ford Motor Company – Plants – Europe – England and Ireland
  • Perry, Percival Lea Dewhurst

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