Re: England, Australia, New Zealand Info Requested
If this is any help ,New Zealand started to receive some shippements from Dagenham from 1933.I have no records of any British Model A's exported to NZ before this. Ford Canada still supplied most Ford vehicles , but the British were actively pushing manufactured goods to Dominion countries to balance the primary products these markets were providing to Britain. New Zealand, Australia, Canada, even non dominion states like Argentina, could not refuse as they were dependant on the huge British market to sell their exports.
NZ received in '33, 9 English bodied sedans [ B4, small bore] plus approx. 40 heavy AA type commercial chassis, also 12 light commercial B/ Model 14 chassis. They also started to send the Model Y cars [ 550 'Baby Ford'] up to 1937 & 13 Model 62 V8 sedans, 108" chassis.
Some of these figures may not be exact, but the scale should be ; it was the Depression era.
Tom, nz
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