GM/Ford? based armoured vehicles of the Dutch East Indies

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
A bit of very interesting history:

FORD-WERKE A.G was a corporation organised under the laws of Deustchland. FORD INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED of Guernsey, British Channel Islands which was a wholly owned subsiary of FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED of Dagenham [actually London] owned RM 2 million par value shares in FORD-WERKE whose capital was RM 32 million. In addition FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED owned RM 20,000 in FORD-WERKE. FORD MOTOR COMPANY of Dearborn owned 59.136% of FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED.

Reminds me of the efforts Ford USA put into trying to play down its ties with Ford Werke because of a claim for their responsibility for the use of forced labor during WW2 a few years back - see Research Findings About Ford-Werke Under the Nazi Regime.

Ford-Werke had in storage at the PAPLER KAROSSERIEWERK GmbH in Koln-Niehl 83 completed driver's' cabs ...

As for Papler, they also used forced labour making large numbers of wooden cargo beds and that typical wooden Einheits-Fahrerhaus for Ford G987T and V3000S trucks (see pics here), as well as radio bodies for Ford V8-51 chassis.

H.