Former Ford Factory (Old Ford Factory)

The Former Ford Factory was constructed in October 1941 as a Ford Motor Company factory along Upper Bukit Timah Road. It is best known as the location where Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival signed the formal surrender of British forces to the Imperial Japanese Army on 15 February 1942, marking a pivotal moment in the Fall of Singapore. Postwar, the building has been preserved for its historical significance; it was gazetted as a National Monument in 2006 and converted into an exhibition gallery and archive focused on life in Singapore under Japanese wartime rule. The on-site exhibition was originally known as Memories at Old Ford Factory and the site has undergone renovation and reopening activities noted in heritage coverage. The supplied sources are historical and heritage-oriented and contain no documented accounts of hauntings, apparitions, poltergeist activity, or other paranormal phenomena associated with the site. While the traumatic historical events connected to the factory (the surrender and the subsequent period of Japanese occupation) provide strong mnemonic and commemorative resonance in Singaporean public memory, the research notes include no folkloric or eyewitness claims about spirits or supernatural occurrences at the site. Any suggestion of hauntings is not supported by the cited material.