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documentary which tells the story of a dream of happy families on wheels that the ford motor
company brought from detroit to dagenham, then sold to britain. from the 1950s onwards ford
revolutionised the cars we drove, producing dream cars for the average british family. in the 60s
and 70s ford sold dreams to boy racers too, but it came at a price. the mass production of motor
cars required an army of assembly line workers who did jobs that were infamous for their soul-
destroying monotony. at its peak dagenham was producing more than 3,000 cars every day and
its most popular dream car, the cortina, sold around five million in britain alone. but the assembly
line workers had a love-hate relationship with the cars they made and for some the dream
became a nightmare. illustrated with powerful first person testimony and rare archive, this is the
story of the rise and fall of ford's dagenham dream.