Jun 22, 2023
GAZ-A »Russki-Ford« Staff Car - From Engines of the Red Army
On 31 May 1929, Henry Ford and the Ford Corporation signed a contract allowing the Soviet Union to construct licensed copies of Ford-A passenger cars and Ford-AA trucks.In 1931-32, the plant was erected in Nishny-Novgrod on the Volga shores with massive American assistance and given the name of Molotov (ZIM – Zavod Imeny Molotov).With the renaming of Nishny-Novgrod to Gorkiy in 1932, the plant’s…
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