Ford-Vairogs

Ford-Vairogs
IndustryAutomobile
Founded1936
Defunct1940
FateNationalized and closed
HeadquartersRiga, Latvia
ProductsCars, Trucks, Buses
ParentFord Motor Company (Copenhagen division)
Assembly of Ford-Vairogs trucks in Riga in the late 1930s

Ford-Vairogs ("Vairogs" meaning "Shield") (earlier called "Fenikss") was the name of a car factory in Riga, Latvia that produced license-built Ford cars between September 1937 and 1940 when it was expropriated as the property of the Soviet government. Not including the war department orders, Ford-Vairogs made 200 buses, 1000 trucks and 332 automobiles.