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In addition to that, the Mk IV became in 1967 so far the only racecar built entirely in the United States to win overall at Le Mans, whilst in the previous year Ford won with a British-built chassis and only an engine came from America.
The agreement with Broadley included a one-year collaboration between Ford and Broadley, and the sale of the two Lola Mk 6 chassis built to Ford.
Five prototype models were built with roadster bodywork, including the Ford X-1.
The Ford X-1 was a roadster built to contest the Fall 1965 North American Pro Series, a forerunner of Can-Am, entered by the Bruce McLaren team and driven by Chris Amon.
The Ford G7A was a CanAm car, built in 1969 using the J-car chassis.
* John Ford Home, American National Register historic landmark in Mississippi's Marion County, Mississippi ; built in 1809 by one of region's earliest settlers, John Ford ( minister )
Final production version Jeeps built by Willys-Overland were the Model MB, while those built by Ford were the Model GPW ( G = government vehicle, P designated the 80 " wheelbase, and W = the Willys engine design ).
Willys-Overland and Ford, under the direction of Charles E. Sorensen ( Vice-President of Ford during World War II ), produced about 640, 000 Jeeps towards the war effort, which accounted for approximately 18 % of all the wheeled military vehicles built in the U. S. during the war.
An amphibious jeep, the model GPA, or " seep " ( Sea Jeep ) was built for Ford in modest numbers but it could not be considered a huge success — it was neither a good off-road vehicle nor a good boat.
World War II era jeep built by Ford, using the Willys-Overland design
* Brazil – Willys Overland do Brasil, purchased by Ford to become Ford do Brasil – 1957 – 1985 and the Troller T4 is a fiberglass bodied Jeep version built in Brazil.
This engine also continued in use in some export markets using units built at a Ford plant in Brazil, where Land Rovers were built under license and the engine was also used in Ford pick-up trucks built locally.
) Ford has also lent Mazda some of its capacity when needed: the Mazda 121 sold in Europe and South Africa was, for a time, a variant of the Ford Fiesta built in plants in Europe and South Africa.
The Ford and the Volkswagen Group JV Auto-Europa similarly co-developed models on a common chassis and built them in a shared-plant in Palmela, Portugal.

Ford and River
Dartmouth's other athletic facilities in Hanover include the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse and the old rowing house storage facility ( both located along the Connecticut River ), the Hanover Country Club, Dartmouth's oldest remaining athletic facility ( established in 1899 ), and the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.
Father Mathew Bridge is understood to be near the ancient " Ford of the Hurdles " ( Baile Átha Cliath ), the original crossing point on the River Liffey.
* " Ford O ' Kabul River "
Jacob's Ford Battlefield, looking from the west bank to the east bank of the Jordan River.
In the summer of 1179, King Baldwin had set up an outpost on the road to Damascus and aimed to fortify a passage over the Jordan River, known as Jacob's Ford, that commanded the approach to the Banias plain ( the plain was divided by the Muslims and the Christians ).
* 1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
At the New Orleans slave market, Burch's partner Thomas Freeman sold Northup under the name of Platt to William Ford, a planter on Bayou Boeuf of the Red River ( Mississippi ) in Louisiana.
* March 7 – Four people are killed when police fire upon 3, 000 unemployed autoworkers marching outside the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
* September 5 – American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55, 000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
That same year, Henry Ford decided to stop paying stock dividends to finance the construction of his new River Rouge complex.
James Ford, an American Ohio River civic leader and businessman, secretly led a gang of river pirates and highwaymen from the 1820s to the mid-1830s, on the Ohio River in Illinois and Kentucky.
Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father ( although, in reality, Connery is just twelve years senior to Ford ), Henry Jones, Sr. Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies also have featured roles.
The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point, which the Seminole called Wacca Pilatka and the British named the " Cow Ford ", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.
There is an old coaching Inn on the Epsom Road previously called the ' Sanford Arms ', which almost certainly derives from ' Sand Ford ', so this adds weight to the suggestion that ' Guildford ' is a corruption of ' Gold Ford ', referring to the very distinctive golden sand showing on the banks of the River Wey where it cuts through the sandy outcrop just south of the town.
From Hazor it crossed the northern River Jordan at Jacob's Ford then climbed sharply over the Golan Heights and wound its way northeast into Damascus.
The Town of Hicksford ( also sometimes called Hick's Ford ) was settled in 1710 in the Virginia Colony, where the Fort Road of eastern Virginia crossed the Meherrin River en route to Fort Christanna.
Camp Ford was the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War and was where Sheriff Jim Reed of Collin County and Judge McReynolds, former chief justice of the district were seized and lynched by " Regulators ".
It was named after Brigadier General William Lee Davidson, an American Revolutionary War general killed at the Battle of Cowan's Ford on the Catawba River in 1781.
* Ford River Township
A stretch of the Hertford Union Canal leads from the Regent's canal, at a basin in the north of Mile End to join the River Lea at Old Ford.

Ford and Rouge
The Rouge River runs through the city with an artificial waterfall / low head dam on the Henry Ford estate to power his powerhouse.
The subdivision was designed to house workers at the nearby Ford River Rouge Plant in the city of Dearborn.
Thus, the name Rouge -" Red "- Ford.
Joe's brother worked for Ford Motor Company ( where Joe would himself work for a time at the River Rouge Plant ) and the family settled into a home at 2700 Catherine ( now Madison ) Street in Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood.
As the United States had no diplomatic contact with the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, President Ford instructed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to urge the People's Republic of China to persuade the Khmer Rouge to release the Mayaguez and its crew.
* Ford River Rouge Complex
Vertical integration has also described management styles that bring large portions of the supply chain not only under a common ownership, but also into one corporation ( as in the 1920s when the Ford River Rouge Complex began making much of its own steel rather than buy it from suppliers ).
It was the main business approach of Ford and other car companies in the 1920s, who sought to minimize costs by integrating the production of cars and car parts as exemplified in the Ford River Rouge Complex.
The paper was printed on a used press purchased by Ford and installed in Ford's tractor plant in The Rouge.
The English herald, Rouge Croix, came to Ford to appoint a place for battle on 4 September, with extra instructions that any Scottish heralds who were sent to Surrey were to be met where they could not view the English forces.
* George Whittaker, Sr., manager at Ford Plant, Rouge, Michigan ;
Kahn later designed, in 1917, the massive half-mile-long Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
The car was assembled at the Dearborn Assembly Plant ( DAP ) ( one of six plants within the Ford Rouge Center ) in Dearborn, Michigan from 1967 to 1973, at the San Jose Assembly Plant in Milpitas, California from 1968 into early 1969 and at the Lorain Assembly Plant ( LAP ) in Lorain, Ohio from 1974 to 1997.
Andre Citroen re-equipped his factory as a scaled down version of the Ford River Rouge Plant, that he had visited in Detroit Michigan.
In the late 1920s Ford moved automobile assembly to the River Rouge Plant complex in nearby Dearborn.
Initially, Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum were owned by the Ford Motor Company which cooperates with the Henry Ford to provide the Ford Rouge Factory Tour and is a sponsor of the school.

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