Abstract
The objective of this study is to explore Tophane Assembly Plant, the first foreign investment in the Turkish automotive industry, from an industrial geography perspective. This study, which can be considered as geographical exploration of a plant, studies the automotive assembly plant in terms of various aspects. One of the most important automotive producers worldwide in 1920s, Ford established in Istanbul an automotive assembly plant like the other ones it had established in other different geographical regions of the world. The government of the time directly supported this investment of Ford by means of incentives. Ford started automotive assembly production (automobile, tractor and truck) in late 1929 at the Tophane Bonded Warehouse designated as a Free Zone. However, shortly afterwards, upon the emergency of problems, both national and global, The Ford discontinued the production. This assembly plant founded by Ford, the US-based automotive giant, had turned into an ineffectual production area (sort of industrial waste area) which the company used for sale of motor vehicles and spare parts. The company, after officially leaving Istanbul in 1944, refrained from automotive investments in Turkey for a long time (until the first assembly plant founded by partnership of Otosan-Ford in 1959).
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