Unknown Type of Truck in the Libyan Desert

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I am not sure if there was an official Ford subsidiary (possibly of Ford Motor Co Ltd, London & Dagenham) or of Ford Motor Co of Canada Ltd, or whether it was a importer-assembler. However, as with the Singapore operation, which was the latter, Fords from the UK, USA, and ahem, Germany were assembled in Alexandria and sent out to all over the Near East and Palestine, Trans-Jordan. The reason I believe it was an i-a operation is because the pre-war British government files refer to Eifel cars being sold there, in a market dominated by British Ford imports, and Ford of Britain said that they had no control over the operation. The presence of subsidised German cars caused consternation amongst the local British car importers. As is known, the prospect of the Volks-Wagen was also treated with concern in the UK and other countries,,,'flivver exports', using the Model T's pet name, was widely used.