Matford

The SA Française Matford was a French manufacturer of automobiles.

Company History

Maurice Dollfuss of Ford France and Emil Mathis of Mathis SA founded in September 1934, the joint venture Matford for automobile production. The brand name was Matford. 1940 ended the production and the company is dissolved in June 1940.

Rolling stock

Passenger cars

At the beginning Mathis models were offered under the brand name Matford, parallel then Ford models, the repressed, the models of Mathis below.

The model Quadruflex had by Mathis chassis and V8 engines from Ford you sold poorly.

The vehicles of model year 1935 corresponded to the American Ford V8 model 48 for driving a V8 engine made ​​with 3622 cc capacity.

1936, the Alsace with a new, less Americanized body. The four-door sedan had four side windows. The choice was between V8 engine with 2227 cc and 3622 cc capacity.

1937 supplemented a convertible and hatchback variant Commerciale the range. In 1938 a station wagon with wooden planking to do so.

Matford Alsace 1936

Matford 1938

Matford 1938

Matford 1939

Matford F917WS

In 1940, the Matford F917WS.Dieser truck was built further despite the outbreak of World War II until February 1943 and then discontinued in favor of the Ford V 3000 S from German production. After the war, the model was modified again in 1949 when Ford Cargo F798WM produced until 1954, when Ford France was taken over by Simca. Thus, the model was produced as Simca Cargo from 1955 and through the acquisition of Automobiles Unic 1958 to 1960 as Unic Cargo.