Former Ford Factory
Art Deco factory where British forces surrendered to Japan on 15 February 1942.
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This guide to the Former Ford Factory in Singapore sets up the boardroom meeting of 15 February 1942, where a Japanese general with a fraction of his opponent's troops and a collapsing supply line sat down with a British commander running out of water for a million people. It follows General Yamashita's own later admission about the risk he was taking, and General Percival's exhausted arrival at the table after Singapore's reservoirs had been bombed.
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