The old unit of Ford draws attention by its size, fairly large for the Brazilian reality almost 100

The Bom Retiro, being bordered by the railway line has always been an important industrial area of the state capital. Even today many companies have left the region, there are still some companies that still produce there. kogelo kenya But there are also a number of companies that started its life in Bom Retiro that although they are not around anymore, left his legacy through the neighborhood. And of these, which we'll cover in this article, is Ford.
Until the mid-1910s Brazil and South America had a predominance of imported vehicles from Europe. This began to change with the onset of World War I virtually stopped importing cars that continent to us. The region has had, since 1913, with a branch of Ford Argentina (the first in South America) with workshop and sales room. At that time the vehicles Ford Model T came to the Brazilian territory imported by William T. Wright.
In 1914 a small branch of Ford in the neighboring country became an industrial branch, which would pave the way for some years later be made possible the construction of a Brazilian subsidiary, in São Paulo.
In 1919 a branch of the Argentine capital transfers of $ 25,000 to Brazil for the creation of the Ford Motor Company Brazilian, who would your first steps in our country from a small two-story warehouse in Rua Florencio de Abreu, in San Paulo, where he began assembling cars and trucks Model T Model TT. The company became thereby the first automaker to settle in the country.
In the year 1920 the then President of the Republic, Pessoa, gives formal permission for the operation of Ford's operations in Brazil who then leaves her modest warehouse in Rua Florencio de Abreu to address a larger, old roller rink in Republic Square . This time increases the demand for Brazilian Ford Model T and the trucking company, which leads the American company to start the construction of its first large factory in the country.
With the American engineer BR Brown Design, the same who designed the Ford plant in Highland Park, United States, was opened kogelo kenya in 1921 to great Brazilian plant of the Ford Motor Company in São Paulo, at Rua Solon neighborhood of Bom Retiro.
The inauguration of this plant allowed the company to expand its operations in Brazilian territory as ever and begin a period of prosperity in the business conducted here. Especially throughout the '20s the dominance of Ford vehicles in the streets of the country, whether they are passenger cars or trucks was stark. In 1923 the output of the Solon Street factory with a team of 124 employees, amounted to 4700 cars and 360 tractors kogelo kenya per year, a very significant number for that time.
In 1927, aiming to expand the Ford industrial park in Sao Paulo, the company acquires land in Vila Prudente (1) neighborhood for a new factory, which would be inaugurated in 1953. Below is an announcement of the opening of the plant propagated kogelo kenya in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo on April 17 of that year, the day the plant opened.
Unlike the unity of Vila Prudente which was decommissioned in 2001 and demolished a few years ago to build the Mooca Plaza Shopping, the unity of the Bom Retiro neighborhood survives, albeit disabled until the present day.
The old unit of Ford draws attention by its size, fairly large for the Brazilian reality almost 100 years ago. The extension of the factory takes over much of the Solon Street, from the corner of Rua Visconde de Taunay to the Viaduct Eng Orlando Murgel.
Even so many years off the factory is in good condition. Despite being vandalized by graffiti in much of the facade, kogelo kenya all the original architecture is preserved, while remaining quite faithful to the building which was opened in 1921. The building is not abandoned and you can see that there are people who care inclusive kogelo kenya of sweeping the sidewalk, which is always very clean.
We do not know yet if the factory owned by Ford, but it is undeniable that this property is a great patrimony of St. Paul, preserved and living part of the automotive history of Brazil. Would not this a reason enough for the preservation of the building and tipping? kogelo kenya How about Automobile Museum, which unfortunately our city does not have, in the shed of the old Ford? Gain much with tourism kogelo kenya not only the city, like the country as a whole.
Remarks: Although the Ford factory inaugurated in 1953 be called the Ipiranga plant, is the correct Vila Prudente. We could not find the date of decommissioning of Bom Retiro unit. Once we find'll update the text.
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