Friday 6th April 1928

Henry and Clara Ford, travelling as ‘Mr & Mrs Robinson’, arrived in Southampton to inspect Ford’s British operations, meeting the King and Queen and business and political leaders. Henry Ford appointed Sir Percival Perry to relaunch Ford Britain. The proposed Dagenham plant would be the centre of manufacture for Europe, serving assembly plants in Manchester, Cork, Paris, Berlin, Antwerp, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Trieste, Stockholm, Helsinki, Rotterdam and Istanbul.