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9.3.25 Overseas Sales

    • From Canada:  One report states that  225,000 Model T vehicles were exported to the following countries: www.dyna.co.za/cars/ford-history.htm

      • South Africa: 30,000
      • Australia: 75,699 plus 24,301 assembled in country. In what year did the first Model T arrive?                                                                

        Australian Model T
      • New Zealand: 37,000. First order about 1912.
      • India: 22,000. First order about 1910.   

        Indian Model T
                                              
                       
      • Java: 7,900.
      • Singapore: 12,000.
      • Unknown destinations: 16,000.
      • Malaya: First order by 1910. Total quantity not known.
      • Barbados: First order by 1910. Total quantity not known.
      • Special note: The exported toal implies that 532,430 Model T's were sold in Canada and for it's then population (8.4 million in 1920) this figure may be too high. Could the export total be much greater than 225,000? The Canadian export total appears to be too low.

    • From USA:

      •  Turkey: 1910
      • Mauritius: 1910
      • China: September 1913.
      • Dutch East Indies: October 1913.
      • Indonesia: October 1913.
      • Siam: October 1913.
      • Brazil: December 1913. By 1925 24,000 Model T cars and trucks had been sold.
      • Cook Island: About 1914.
      • Egypt: Model T sales office opened in September 1926.
      • Sales figures required.
 
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