Interesting discussion on the Ford tool checks.
The first photo I've attached shows a Ford tool check supposedly from Ford's Russian assembly plant (prior to GAZ). Does anyone have any insight on these tags? The lower letters spell out Ford in Russian: форд = Ford. Thanks Tudortomnz for passing on that the top two characters are Russian for g.4, perhaps designating the persons work area or his personnel number.
I also recently acquired several Ford tool checks that are the same format as the Rouge ones, but stamped "Brazil", apparently from Fordlandia (see second attached photo). These came from the mother of a French photographer who was killed while on assignment for National Geographic while exploring and photographing the remotest areas of the Brazilian Amazon.
Fordially,
Brad in Maryland
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