Footnotes

• This painting is one of a series of six originally commissioned by the Ford Motor Company Ltd in 1946, to depict Ford car, truck, van and tractor production at the Dagenham plant.
  
  During the War years, the plant was a major production facility for military vehicles and Rolls-Royce Spitfire aero engines, and was subsequently damaged by German bombing raids. Its post-War role saw the factory employing upto 30,000 staff during the 1950s and 1960s, and was the major European car production factory of the time.
  
  From 1964, all six paintings were located at the Ford training centre at Boreham near Chelmsford, and in 1987 were all loaned to the Terence Cuneo 80th Birthday Exhibition at the Mall Gallery, London. This painting bears the card relating to that exhibition, fixed to the reverse of the frame. A printed sheet detailing further provenance is offered with the lot.

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Category: Motoring / Automobilia

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