In 1954, Ford decided to withdraw from the Ford Motor Ibérica factory, which was taken over by a group of Spanish businessmen; a year later, it was renamed Motor Ibérica S.A. From that point onwards, the company began manufacturing and marketing its products under the new “Ebro” brand. Interestingly, the name ‘EBRO’ was chosen as it was the closest to the name of England’s best-known river (the Thames).
Motor Ibérica honoured its commitments to Ford and continued to trade in Spain. This mainly involved FordSon agricultural tractors, the Ford Thames Super 55 lorry and the Ebro B-35. In 1955, aware of the Ford Thames’s proven reliability, Ebro launched the B-35 model, which was an exact copy of the Ford Thames ET6.
This was a light goods vehicle with a 4×2 layout and a gross vehicle weight of 6,000 kg. Its cab had been designed by the British company Briggs Bodies and was, essentially, identical to those produced by other manufacturers such as Leyland, with its Comet model, or Dodge, with the Kew.
The B-35 was designed for a payload of four tonnes and was fitted with a four-cylinder Ebro engine delivering 70 CV. Motor Ibérica’s aim was to fill a gap in the medium-tonnage commercial vehicle segment. This segment comprised a highly diverse fleet, the result of a difficult post-war period. To keep them running, the vehicles were “patched up” to such an extent that they sometimes became unrecognisable. The shortage of raw materials, spare parts and tools made it very difficult to develop an in-house model, so the company turned to a tried-and-tested, fully developed design.
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