Aerial View of Ford Motor Company Branch in Yokohama, Japan, March 20, 1943

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Artifact Overview

Ford Motor Company operated sales and service branches, as well as assembly plants, in cities around the world. Ford established an assembly plant in Yokohama, Japan, in 1922. After Japan's devastating Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, workers at the Yokohama plant produced 1,000 small buses, built on Model T chassis, to restore transportation in nearby Tokyo.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

20 March 1943

Subject Date

20 March 1943

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.833.P.77615.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10.875 in

Aerial View of Ford Motor Company Branch in Yokohama, Japan, March 20, 1943