Bibliography: Ford Motor Company Japan

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Ford Motor Company Japan Bibliography

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Archival

  • Acc. 363 Agreements and Contracts
    • box 1 Agreement between Ford Motor Company of Delaware and Ford Motor Company of Japan, March 7, 1925
       
  • Acc. 1413 Product Literature, Ford Motor Company, Ltd. (Japan)
     
  • Acc. 6 Edsel Ford Office Papers
    • box 182 Telegrams; 1927 (includes Crawford message to EBF re: Yokohama, Japan plant construction)
    • box 183
      • Telegrams; 1928 (includes FMC-Yokohama, Japan)
      • Telegrams; 1929 (includes FMC-Yokohama, Japan)
    • box 274 U-Z Bernard R. Brown, FMC, Yokohama, Japan), 1928
       
  • Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
    • box 196 SA460 F-G (includes Mr. Ford's letter of sympathy to Sale & Frazer Ltd., Kobe, Japan), 1923
    • box 205 A10 H-I (includes letter of thanks from Henry K. Akiguchi, Ford, Lincoln and Fordson Dealer in Kochi, Japan), 1924
    • box 498 Ford Motor Company; Yokohama, 1926
    • box 636 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1927
    • box 637 Ford Motor Company; Yokohama, 1927
    • box 798 Ford Motor Company; Yokohama, Japan, 1928
    • box 970 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1929
    • box 1147 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1930
    • box 1315 Ford Motor Company; Yokohama, Japan, 1931
    • box 1436 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1932
    • box 1593 Ford Motor Company; Yokohama, Japan, 1933-1934
    • box 1662 OF-OG (includes K. Z, Ogawa re: hanging scroll presented by Ford dealers in Tokyo and Yokohama District), 1933-1934
    • box 1766 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1935
    • box 2141 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1938
    • box 2286 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1939-1940
    • box 2492 Ford Motor Company; Japan, 1941-1942
       
  • Acc. 1 Fair Lane Papers
    • box 173 Branch Operations; Foreign; Japan, correspondence, 1941-1945, and undated
       
  • Acc. 38 Charles Sorensen Papers
    • box 7 Japan: Yokohama, 1931
    • box 10 Japan: Yokohama, 1932
    • box 26 China and Japan trip, March-June, 1935
    • box 29 Japan: Yokohama, 1935
    • box 34 Japan, 1936
    • box 38 Japan, 1937
    • box 41 Japan, 1938
       
  • Acc. 689 WC Cowling Records
    • box 1 Scrapbook, 1930 (includes Japan)
  • Acc. 390 AM Wibel Office Papers
    • box 85
      • Mr. Hesser - Japanese Trip, 1935
      • Japan, 1935-1939 (2 folders)
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  • Acc. 391 Wendell S Miller Records
    • box 20
      • Ford Finance Co. of Japan, Ltd. 1939
      • Ford Motor Co. of Japan, Ltd. 1939
         
  • Acc. 157 CL Martindale Otto H Husen Files
    • box 10 Time Study; Yokohama, 1936
    • box 18 Time Study; Yokohama, 1937
    • box 203 Costs and statistics; Yokohama, 1941
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  • Acc. 58 Subject Files Subseries, Sir Percival Perry Foreign Branch Operations
    • box 2
      • Japan Refinancing, 1935-40
      • Japan Times. Sept. 21, 1934
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  • Acc. 46 Ford Motor Company Executive Correspondence Records
    • box 54 Branch correspondence; Yokohama, 1938
    • box 76 Branch correspondence; Yokohama, 1939
    • box 184 Branch correspondence; Yokohama, 1941
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  • Acc. 1042 International Division Purchasing Office Records
    • box 2 International Division Overview, 1958 (photographs, organization charts, and histories) (includes Yokohama)
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  • Acc. 712 Correspondence Subseries. International Division
    • box 36 Yokohama; Fleet owner reports, 1942-1943, Local purchases
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  • Acc. 713 Correspondence Subseries. International Division
    • box 8
      • Yokohama: Japan data, tooling needs etc., 1936 (blueprints)
      • Yokohama, 1945 – 1949
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  • Acc. 206 Interim Reports
    • box 5 Foreign Assembly Branches (minute costs & daily production); February 1934-February 1935; Yokohama
    • box 6 Foreign Assembly Branches (minute costs & daily production); March-December 1935; Yokohama
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  • Acc. 1905 Facilities Department Records 
    • box 1 International automotive operations; Japan automatic transmission expansion and design change, 1973
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  • Acc. 507 Manufacturing and Assembly Department Records
    • box 43 150-182 (includes miscellaneous: Yokohama)
    • box 99 Sales records; Yokohama, 1934-1938
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  • Acc. 49 Controllers Office Records
    • box 19-21 Yokohama, 1946
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  • Acc. 708 Bank Account Statements
    • box 32 Yokohama, Japan (Ford Motor Company of Japan, Ltd. 1933-1935
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  • Acc. 710 Treasury Reports
    • box 3 Yokohama - Treasury License, 1941 1946
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  • Acc. 394 Accounting Records
    • box 1 Ford Motor Co of Japan Ltd., 1926
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  • Acc. 1394 Foreign Branch Advertising Records
    • box 11 Yokohama 5-1938 to 11-1940
       
  • Acc. 880 Mira Wilkins Ford International Research Papers
     
  • Acc. 881 Mira Wilkins Research Notes for Nevins Volume III
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  • RC.6 Engineering and Blueprint Aperture Card Collection
    • drawer 4 Ford Motor Company; Plants; Japan, Yokohama
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  • Small Accessions
    • Acc. 503 International Division Advertising Records, 1947-1948
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  • Acc. 833 General Photographs Series
    • box 3 Africa, Asia, Australia, Turkey (4a) (includes Yokohama plant)
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  • Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File
    • box 125 Ford Motor Company – Buildings – Japan – Yokohama

Ford News

  • See: Ford Assembly Plant (Yokohama, JPN)
     
  • Many Attend Opening of Yokohama Plant, 9:5:50:1-
  • Company's Development Steady Throughout 1925 (New branch), 5:13F:1+:1, 6:7L:1+:1
  • Ford, Lincoln in Foreign Lands (Lincoln car tour of dealers),6:19L:6+:1-4
  • War Increases Nippon's Autos (Assembly line production begins), 1:18:5:1
  • Build Roads for Autos in China (Light car 1922), 2:5L:6:3-4
  • Replaces Yokohama plant, 3:7F: 1+:3-4, 4:IL:1+:3-4
  • News of Progress From Nippon, 1:9:3:2-3
  • Car Proves Worth in...Trial Run (Model A), 8:15:126:1
  • Ford Around the World (Photo), 14:10:191:1-2
  • Ford Export Company Has Shanghai Plant, 8:16:138:3
  • Ford Motor Company of Japan Formed, 5:9L:1:1
  • Improved Cars Appearing in Europe (1926 models), 6:3L:1+:4
  • New Assembly Plant at Yokohama Completed, 9:1:2:1-3
  • New Japanese Plant Under Construction, 8:3L:1+:2
  • 26th Milestone Reached by Company (New plant), 9:12:134+:1-2
  • News of the Month: Dealers of Nippon Greet V-8, 12:10:6:1
  • Ford Cars Featured in Auto Display in Tokyo, 11:3:29:1-3
  • Model A in Tokio, 8:13:104:1
  • (1923) Automotive Transport in Japan Gains Popularity, 3:4F:2:3-4, 3:22L:2:3-4 
  • (1923) Leading market in Far East, 2:19F:7:3, 3:13L:7:3
  • Serving in Japan (Model TT chassis), 6:4F:3:1-2, 6:22L:3:1-2
  • Principles of Model T Applied to Earthquake proof Buildings, 3:14F:2:3-4, 4:8L:2:3-4
  • ...Using Motor Buses to Restore Its Transportation System, 3:7F:1+:3-4,4:1L:1+:3-4
  • Ford World Notes: At Tokyo, 11:5:56:2-3
  • Tractors in Japan. 3:1F:8:2
  • Ford World Notes: Feminine Drivers Pilot Fleet of Ford Buses (Japan), 10:14:164:1-3
  • Ford World Notes: Ford Products Serve Japanese City, 9: 17:200:2
  • Japan's...Using Motor Buses to Restore Transportation System, 3:7F:1+:3-4, 4:1L:l+:3-24
  • In Many Lands (Japan), 11:15:19:1-2
  • Serving in Japan (Ford bus), 6:4F:3:1-2, 6:22L:3:1-2
  • Ford World Notes: How Japanese Drivers Are Trained, 8:24:236:2-3
  • Ford...Notes: Serves Nippon Police (Use Model A), 9:7:80:1-3
  • Ford World Notes: Delivers Lamps in Japan, 10:15:176:1
  • Ford World Notes: In Japan (Used as a hearse), 10:18:212:2-3
  • Model A in the Land of Cherry Blossoms (Model AA-1928), 8:23:228:1-3
  • Ford World Notes: Fire Fighter (Sells fire fighting equipment), 10:10:116:2

Audio Visual (materials may be restricted due to format, please contact reference staff in advance for access)

  • Yokohama Model A. Sorensen, Lorin, ed.; Silverado Productions
    • 629.222 F699 S713a 1990 VHS

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