Ford Australia Founded 100 Years Ago

Ford Australia has become an important piece of The Blue Oval’s portfolio as of late, most recently selling 100,170 new vehicles last year, which is 14.1 percent or 12,370 more than 2023 – when it posted its best sales result in a decade, and its first 100k+ annual sales result since 2008. It’s hard to imagine a world in which Ford Australia didn’t exist, even as some of its competitors have pulled out of that market amid various struggles – ones that almost resulted in FoMoCo following suit years ago, according to CEO Jim Farley. That never happened, however, and now, Ford Australia is celebrating a very special milestone.

That milestone is 100 years of existence after Ford Australia was originally founded on March 31^st, 1925. To help celebrate this centennial, Ford archives and heritage brand manager  Ted Ryan announced that the automaker has added roughly 2,500 historical photos and brochures of the automaker’s Aussie models to its Heritage Vault, to boot. Here, we get to see a few of those, which include Ford’s 1934 ‘ute, as well as more than one Falcon – which dominated the automaker’s Australian sales charts for many years.

Given the fact that Ford Motor Company itself has existed for well over a century to this point, it isn’t terribly surprising that the company has also celebrated its fair share of centennials as of late. Back in February 2022, we marked 100 years since Henry Ford purchased Lincoln Motor Company from inventor and engineer Henry Leland for a total of $8 million dollars, for starters. In March 2024, Ford Netherlands celebrated 100 years of existence, and then, last August, the Ford Chicago Assembly plant reached that same milestone. CAP looks quite a bit different than it did a century ago, as one might imagine, as it has gone from building Model Ts to the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator today.