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'''Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited''' (known by its trading name '''Ford Australia''') is the Australian subsidiary of [[Automotive industry in the United States|United States-basedStates–based automaker]] [[Ford Motor Company]]. It was founded in 1925 as an Australian outpost of [[Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited|Ford Motor Company of Canada]]. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford in the US. [[Henry Ford]] had granted the manufacturing rights of Ford motor vehicles in the British Empire (later the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]]) to Canadian investors.
 
Ford Australia's first products were Model T [[car]]s assembled from [[Complete knock down|complete knock-down (CKD) kits]] provided by Ford of Canada. Of the many models that followed, the best known was the [[Ford Falcon (Australia)|Falcon]] produced from 1972 to 2016, originally a [[United States|US]] model introduced in Australia in 1960 and eventually adapted to Australian requirements and road conditions.