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The earliest presence of the Ford Company in Germany was a parts operation set up in Hamburg in 1912. It was not until 1925 that an assembly plant was constructed in Berlin where trucks were made from imported parts. Cars followed in 1926.
In 1931 production moved to a new plant in Cologne on a site made available by the mayor of the city, and an increasing proportion of the vehicles was made in Germany rather than imported. The first car off the new production line was the joined in 1932 by the .
Small car manufacture started in 1933 with the , a year after its British launch as the , but it did not have the same impact in Germany as it did in Britain as it was undercut in price by the small .
The was a unique model for the German market made by fitting a 3285 cc engine into a Model B V-8 chassis but most products continued to be Detroit designs albeit with local names. The was the German version of the 10 hp sold in Britain as the and this was joined in 1939 by the first of the long running range.