Complex sentence: He became a car designer working for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, and from there he was in the late 1950s sent to West Germany to lead the build-up of Fords new European design studio in Cologne.
Split into simpler sentences: He became a car designer for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. In the late 1950s, Ford sent him to West Germany to lead the build-up of Fords new European design studio in Cologne.