Interior of the Ford works accosting Dukes of Gloucester

Dukes of Gloucester

The satire's an attack on the extravagant expenditure on the new palace

Scene set at the 'Well of Moses' on the western shore of the Red Sea

Outside the Eagle Tavern and Coffee House

26th January 1957

Interior of the Ford works accosting Dukes of GloucesterInterior of the Ford works, Trafford Park, Manchester, c1911 c1927. Rows of Model Ts are lined up. The hugely successful Model T was Britain's best selling car from 1913 to 1923. The factory began assembling cars from imported parts in 1911, but by 1924 the vehicles were being constructed from 94 % British parts. In 1931, Ford switched its manufacturing activities to its massive new plant at Dagenham, Essex.