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"And so Henry Ford in America, a nation of 100 million, took advantage of that economy of scale to produce the Model T. Imported to England with a price tag depressed by the millions of potential sales available in America, it was far cheaper than anything a domestic producer could make, and meanwhile those English producers were kept from competing on the American market by tariffs. And so, destroyed by unfair circumstances and left undefended by their callous government, they were destroyed."

The vast majority of Fords sold in the UK before WWII were made in factories in the UK, not imported. Ford built its first UK assembly plant in 1911.

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