Industry | Automobile |
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Founded | 1936 |
Defunct | 1940 |
Fate | Nationalized and closed |
Headquarters | Riga, Latvia |
Products | Cars, Trucks, Buses |
Parent | Ford Motor Company (Copenhagen division) |
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.