Tomorrow, Ford will close its Australian factories after manufacturing cars and engines here for 91 years, employing generations of workers, and helping shape Australian culture. Motoring Editor Joshua Dowling looks through the rear-view mirror.
The beginning of the end of the Australian car manufacturing industry starts tomorrow.
Ford will shutter its Broadmeadows car assembly line and keep the last vehicles as museum pieces.
The Geelong factory —- Ford’s first manufacturing site in Australia, in 1925 — made its last engines a fortnight ago, in late September.
Holden is due to close its Port Melbourne engine facility in late 2016, ahead of the closure of its car assembly line in Elizabeth about a year from now.
Toyota will be last to turn out the lights, when the Camry factory in Altona falls silent forever, in late 2017.
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