Ford Australia archives

**Charliewool** · 30-11-2022, 02:24 PM

Detroit or perish?
https://www.drive.com.au/news/fight-...international/

roKWiz · 30-11-2022, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Charliewool

Detroit or perish?
https://www.drive.com.au/news/fight-...international/

Don't envy them doing all the scanning they want done.

stock1991 · 30-11-2022, 02:44 PM

I'd like to see it, for interest sake but if it's stored forever in a room, what's the good of that, other than knowing it is there. To me be better to put it up for sale, let fans own it

**DJM83** · 30-11-2022, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Charliewool

Detroit or perish?
https://www.drive.com.au/news/fight-...international/

Send em i say, let em be preserved and accessed online.
Govco here looks like they dont give 2 hoots, be it back then or now

**FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0** · 30-11-2022, 03:07 PM

Bit of an odd regulation that one: not significant enough, historically, to require the preservation of those records in Australia, but important enough to not allow them to leave the country. End result is the company either needs to spend significant effort and dollars to preserve them in Australia under their own initiative, or just let them rot here.

If this statement really is true, then why don't Ford stump up the cash and get the archives stored appropriately here, without government intervention?

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“We’re always willing to partner and be innovative in any way that we can. We want to see this material preserved regardless of where it is, whether it’s in the US or Australia. We do have duplicates of some (materials) here already in the form of brochures and product photography, but we don’t have the complete Ford Australia collection and that needs to be preserved.”

Bossxr8 · 30-11-2022, 03:25 PM

Surely they should be able to come up with some sort of undertaking where the material is loaned to the US for scanning, and then returned back to Australia?

bungarra · 30-11-2022, 03:34 PM

All the US records are being scanned by an external company. Ford UK is being scanned by a UK Archival company Why they can not use an Australian Archives company to do same here is beyond comprehension.

bb_zetec · 30-11-2022, 03:57 PM

Its a part of Australian History, but essentially it belongs to Ford USA as the Australian arm was (is) a subsidiary of that, so really we are returning the docs to their rightful owner to be scanned and preserved, simple answer really.

Why should Govt. care or not? Its not intelligence information.

fgpsi · 30-11-2022, 04:05 PM

Where are the fpv fgx designs ?

78xcgxl · 30-11-2022, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by fgpsi

Where are the fpv fgx designs ?

There wouldn't be any in my opinion. Ford announced closure of Australian manufacturing in 2012. Why would they make the design team spend time designing a vehicle they had no intention of making?

fgpsi · 30-11-2022, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 78xcgxl

There wouldn't be any in my opinion. Ford announced closure of Australian manufacturing in 2012. Why would they make the design team spend time designing a vehicle they had no intention of making?

Hrmm there definitely is. They designed a full fpv fgx range. Cannot remember where I read it though apologies

Bossxr8 · 01-12-2022, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by bungarra

All the US records are being scanned by an external company. Ford UK is being scanned by a UK Archival company Why they can not use an Australian Archives company to do same here is beyond comprehension.

They said it was a significant cost.

bungarra · 01-12-2022, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Bossxr8

They said it was a significant cost.

Interesting, so the costs of the UK, USA, Germany, Mexico etc scans is easy enough but not Australia. Sounds more like they just aren't interested.

Bossxr8 · 02-12-2022, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bungarra

Interesting, so the costs of the UK, USA, Germany, Mexico etc scans is easy enough but not Australia. Sounds more like they just aren't interested.

They have funding to do it in the US. An entire building devoted to it, fully staffed, with funding to match. We have none of that here.

barra240t · 02-12-2022, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bossxr8

They said it was a significant cost.

https://www.thedocshop.com.au/document-scanning

Maybe we can shoot Ford US the link

US dollar to AUS shouldn't be too bad

Franco Cozzo · 02-12-2022, 01:43 PM

Private members bill raised in parliament to create legislation specifically targeting Ford Australia would fix this problem quite easily, you could do this at a state level or federally.

If you export it to Detroit there's absolutely zero guarantees that anyone outside of the US, they would easily be able to block access outside of the US, if they even want to digitise it and make it accessible.

Either:

A) Force them to digitise it all and store on Australian based servers or donate to a local museum in Melbourne through legislation.

B) Let it rot and no one has it.

CyberWasp · 02-12-2022, 07:51 PM

I saw some one say on another forum, to send it all to China to be scanned.

That way it will cost less and they can copy the designs and we will have new Falcons to be able to buy again.

Small details might get lost in translation, but maybe we could see a new XY GT with a milkshake maker sticking out of the hood with a 1.8lt motor for example.