Old Ford Factory and Battle of Bukit Timah

The old Ford factory in Bukit Timah is the place of the capitulation of Singapore and the beginning of a long ordeal under the Japanese Occupation. Lieutenant General Arthur Ernest Percival surrendered to General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who happened to be low on supplies and heavily ounumbered at the time. Yamashita employed a succesful bluff which got Lowell to surrender.