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Ford Prefect (car), a line of British cars produced by the UK section of the Ford Motor Company from 1948 - 1961
Ford Prefect (character), a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, named after the car
Ford Prefect (actor), ex byker grove actor friend of Ant & Dec, Jill Halfpenny and Donna Ayr who's equity name comes from the character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' - credits - '[1]

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Category: Disambiguation The Ford Prefect was a line of British cars produced by the UK section of the Ford Motor Company, and a more upmarket version of its direct siblings the Ford Popular and Ford Anglia. ... David Dixon as Ford Prefect in Episode One of the TV adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Ford Prefect (271 words)
	The Ford Prefect was introduced in 1938, built by the Ford plant in Dagenham, Essex[?].
	The original Ford Prefect was a slight reworking of the previous year's Ford 7W[?], the first Ford car designed outside of Detroit, Michigan.
	The fictional character Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is named after the Ford Prefect car, although author Douglas Adams later observed that the joke was lost on U.S. audiences who assumed it was a joke on "perfect".

prefect: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (1363 words)
	In Romania, a prefect is the governmental representative in a county (judeţ), in an agency called prefectură.
	In Quebec, a prefect (préfet) is the head of a regional county municipality.
	The Prefect of Police (Préfet de police) is the officer in charge of co-ordinating police forces in the various administrative circumscriptions of Paris.

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