Resource Pack 8: 1917 Ford Factory
12 Cork City & County Archives: Through War and Rebellion: Cork 1912-1918
Further research and sources:
CORK CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES CATALOGUE This item is from Cork Corporation reports: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110000280
Further dealings between Cork Corporation and Ford’s are documented in City Council and Law and Finance Committee minutes, including disagreement over restrictions in 1922:
http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110000256; http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110004878;
CORK CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES WEBSITE Index to Corporation minutes: http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/City%20Council%20Minutes%20Index%201901%20-%201967.pdf Descriptive Lists:
http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/CP-CO-CY-Mweb.pdf; http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/CP-CO-LF-Mweb.pdf
ELSEWHERE AND ONLINE:
Ordnance Survey Ireland Historic Mapping via the OSI Map viewer is a very good way of looking at the changes to the site over time as it moves from agricultural to recreation and then to Industrial through a combination of Ordnance Survey Maps and aerial photographs right up to the present day.
New World Encyclopaedia Internal combustion engine
A very detailed description and history of the internal combustion engine with limited animation.
‘American Dreaming’: Detroit’s golden age of auto design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Ti4eJbLMM
A short Youtube Video of car designs from the 1950’s
Guardian Newspaper The death of a great American city: why does anyone still live in Detroit?
A good article about the decline of the American car industry as the great car companies move production overseas to cheaper locations.
Ford Motor Company Official Site
Includes a history of the Company and how it is structured today.
Ford Motor Company (Ireland)
Includes a history of the company in Ireland and the building of the Ford plant in Cork.
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