Cologne (Germany)

Ford of Germany had been building cars from the 1920s, was badly damaged by bombing in World War Two, but became the largest European Ford manufacturing centre from the 1960s on, and soon became the centre of Ford of Europe. Almost all the high-output Capris, the Granada/Scorpio (in later years), and Pumas were all assembled there, accompanied by millions of bread-and-butter Fords, and their engines. Along with Ford’s Essex-based centre at Dunton, Cologne became the centre of its technical innovations.