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 Ford Prefect 100E of unknown date (model suggests 1954-1959), seen in the UK |
 1950 Canadian-distribution British Ford Prefect |
1950 Australian Ford Prefect Ute | 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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Ford Prefect of unknown date, at Yate Car Show, Yate, Bristol, England. ...
Ford Prefect of unknown date, at Yate Car Show, Yate, Bristol, England. ...
1950 Canadian Ford Prefect Automobile File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
1950 Canadian Ford Prefect Automobile File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
David Dixon as Ford Prefect in Episode One of the TV adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
Karl Benzs Velo (vélo means bicycle in French) model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race 2005 MINI Cooper S. An automobile (also motor car or simply car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ...
1933 Ford Model Y 1953 Ford Anglia E494A 1960 Ford Anglia 100E Ford Zephyr Six 1966 Ford Anglia 105E in Wales 1966 Ford Cortina Mk I in GT trim, with Lotus Cortina-like side stripe 1967 Ford Anglia 105E 1936 Fordson trucks ad Ford of Britain Limited was the manufacturing...
1956 Ford Popular The Ford Popular is a car from Ford built in England between 1953 and 1959. ...
The Ford Anglia was a British car from Ford in the UK. It was related to the Ford Prefect and the later Ford Popular. ...
The cars progressed from a perpendicular or sit-up-and-beg style to a more modern 3-box structure.
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E93A The Ford Prefect was introduced in 1938 and built by the Ford plant in Dagenham, Essex. The original Ford Prefect was a slight reworking of the previous year's 7Y, the first Ford car designed outside of Detroit, Michigan. It was designed specifically for the British market. It had a 1200cc sidevalve engine with thermocirculation radiator (no pump) and the ability to be started by a crank handle should the battery not have sufficient power to turn the starter motor running from the 6 Volt charging system. The windscreen wipers were powered by the vacuum at the engine manifold - as the car laboured uphill the wipers would slow to a standstill only to start working again as the top was reached and the engine surged. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Dagenham is a suburban town in east London, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, situated 12 miles (19. ...
Essex is a county in the East of England. ...
Ford 7Y is a car from Ford built in the United Kingdom between 1938 and 1939. ...
Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Settled 1701 Incorporation 1806 Government - Type Strong Mayor-Council - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area - City 143. ...
E493A (1948–53) Post war, the Prefect design changed little in design until replaced in 1952. The headlamps moved into the wings and trafficators were fitted (internally lit semaphores springing out from the door pillars to signal left and right turns), though due to space restrictions these were left out on the Australian-built Ute. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Trafficators are the internally lit semaphores springing out from the door pillars on some older (pre 1950s) motor vehicles to signal left and right turns. ...
Mazda B-Series compact pickup truck with extended cabin and home-made wooden rack. ...
100E (1953–59) In 1953 a much redesigned Ford Prefect was introduced alongside the similar Ford Anglia and remained in production until 1959. From 1955, the estate car version (the Squire) was introduced, mechanically identical to the estate car version of the Anglia 100E (the Escort) but with wooden strakes. Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Ford Anglia was a British car from Ford in the UK. It was related to the Ford Prefect and the later Ford Popular. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
107E (1959–61) This was a reworked 100E body with the engine from the Anglia 105E, produced until replaced by the Ford Cortina. Not many were made, all in a two-tone colour scheme. The Ford Cortina was a medium sized family car sold by Ford of Britain in various guises from 1962 to 1982. ...
Exports In addition to the UK, Ford Prefects were also sold in Australia, Argentina and Canada. The Canadian model was left-hand drive. The Australian model was also available in a Coupe Utility or "Ute" form that had an open rear tray area similar in design to an American pick-up but based on the sedan and not derived from a truck or commercial vehicle. It was also license built in Latvia by Ford-Vairogs as Ford-Vairogs Junior. Assembly of Ford-Vairogs in Riga in the 1930s. ...
The Ford Prefect name in other situations In Douglas Adams's science fiction/comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of the characters is an alien who adopted the name "Ford Prefect" while visiting Earth, believing that the name would be "nicely inconspicuous"; he believed that automobiles were the dominant species on Earth, as a result of lazy research on his part. This joke was likely lost on most American readers due to never having heard of the car and the near total absence of the word "prefect" in American culture and language. In the 2005 film adaptation, the character was nearly run over by a real Ford Prefect while attempting to shake hands with it. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
David Dixon as Ford Prefect in Episode One of the TV adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ...
See also The following is a list of vehicles manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. ...
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