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Ford Prefect E493A - Bread and butter the British-American way

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Created on July 8, 2020

Reading time 6min

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Simon Kwasny

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Ab 1948 wurden die Scheinwerfer in die Kotflügel versetzt

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Die Heckansicht des Prefects

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Ford Prefect E493A-Saloon (1950) - schlichte Silhouette, kaum anders als 1938

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Der 1.1 Liter Motor vom Prefect

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Die Motorhaube wurde mit einer schwungvollen Chromfigur bestückt

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Der Innenraum mit Armaturen aus Holz

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Der Kofferraum war staub- und wasserdicht

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Die mit dem E493A eingeführten Winker

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Ford Prefect (1950) - Der Schriftzug des Wagens auf der Heckklappe

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Ford Model Y (1933) - Das Model Y im Park

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Ford Prefect (1948) - Die Frontansicht eines Prefect E493A

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Ford Anglia (1939) - Der Anglia in schwarzweiss

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Ford Anglia (1939) - Der Anglia, gezeichnet in schwarzweiss

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Ford Popular (1953) - Der Ford Popular von der Seite

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Ford Popular (1953) - Die günstige Variante zum 1953 erneuerten Anglia

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Ford Popular (1954) - Der Popular unterwegs mit Kind auf dem Rücksitz

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Ford Prefect (1953) - Anglia und Prefect am Autosalon Paris

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Ford Prefect (1953) - Der Prefect 100E am Autosalon London

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Ford Prefect (1954) - deutlich modernisierter Nachfolger des Prefect E493A

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Ford Anglia (1953) - zwei Damen bei einem Teich

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Die Modellentwicklung vom Ford Model Y bis hin zum Prefect 100E

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - preisgünstiger Wagen der Nachkhriegszeit

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - mit Kofferraumdeckel am Heck

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - viertürig

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - drei Seitenscheiben

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - mit geöffneter Frontscheibe

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - weit öffnende Motorhaube

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - der seitengesteuerte Vierzylinder im Bug

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - einfach, aber praktisch

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - alles, was man zum Fahren braucht

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Ford Prefect E493A (1950) - die Motorhaube lässt sich nach Drehen der Kühlerfigur öffnen

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Summary

After the Model Y, the first Ford specially developed for the European market, and its successor, the Model 7W, Ford introduced the Prefect in 1938. It was spacious, affordable and reliable. After the Second World War, it was given a small update with the model designation E493A. The Prefect enjoyed great popularity in Europe. With its simplicity and despite the problem with the windshield wipers, which had been overlooked by the engineers, the Prefect also made it beyond the roads of Europe. This report is about the E493A, but also describes its ancestors, illustrated with current and historical pictures and the sales literature of the time.

This article contains the following chapters

Evolution instead of revolution
The main thing is cheap
Not only popular in the UK and Europe
Spartan but spacious
The windshield wipers with a lack of staying power
The redesign finally arrives

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Even though Ford is considered by many to be the pioneer of American car manufacturing, the Ford Motor Company was an internationally active company from the very beginning. The first Ford was exported to Great Britain as early as 1903, the year the company was founded. Although the European headquarters at this time were in France (at that time the country with Europe's largest car industry), the UK was the strongest sales country. The Ford Model T became the first "world car" and also enjoyed great popularity in Europe. However, due to its large engine, the Model T was heavily taxed in Europe. As a result, other brands with smaller engines were able to sell better. The Ford Model A, the successor to the T, was heavily modernized, but Ford was still not quite able to compete with the European brands, which were now also producing more compact cars on the assembly line.

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