1940 SA Fords

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Found the 1967 FCSC report on the claim for WW2 losses by GM Corporation!

GENERAL MOTORS JAVA: GM Java was located originally in Tandjong Priok, where trucks and commercial chassis were assembled, and a variety of passenger car chassis. In addition an extensive range of commercial vehicle bodies were manufactured there. After Pearl Harbor the NEI Army authorities requisitioned the truck inventory and ordered the transfer of production facilities to an inland location in an old sugar factory near the City of Solo. Does this make any sense Nuyt please? Prior to the occupation of Java by the Japanese forces in March 1942 substntially all of GM Java's passenger car inventories at the removed location were destroyed at the request of the military. Remaining truck inventory and assembly equipment was evacuated from Solo to a more remote area but were subsequently also lost and destroyed by Japanese military forces, and GM Java operations were suspended 24 March 1942. Inventory was assessed at $1,154,738; Machinery & Equipment $182,276 and Miscellaneous Personal Property $19,943, although GM lost a claim for 'lost currency'..i.e. dollars that they had to repatriate to NYC to pay for ordered inventory.

GM MANILA: GM Overseas Corporation registered in Manila 10 October 1940 and acted as a vehicle sales distribution company distributing vehicles imported from the US. $159,999 was claimed for property, equipment and inventory.

I am asking the US Foreign Claims Settlement Commission if they can send me a copy of the Ford Motor Company claim as it may refer to any NEI losses.