Matford [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Matford
Matford was a car and truck manufacturer in France from 1934 to 1940.
In the early 1930s, the Ford Motor Company was quickly expanding its European production, while Mathis had financial problems, but also a large factory at Strasbourg (which, following frontier changes formalized in 1919, was now in France).
Ford were keen to increase production and the Mathis plant in Strasbourg seemed more suitable than their existing workshop in Asnières-sur-Seine. A joint venture between Ford and Mathis was created under the
France and Germany announced their intention to impose heavy new tariffs on imported components. In France urgent arrangements were made with Mathis for their plant to be leased by a joint-venture to be known as Matford and devoted to the full manufacture of Ford or Matford products.
more capital was required. There were consequential exchanges in shareholdings between Dagenham and Dearborn and other shareholders.
History 1918–1939 1928 Ford Motor Company Limited, 60% owned by Dearborn Independence.
As an indication of the British and Irish company's sense of independence, in