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Show Ford Plans for Postwar Model 'A' k Washington Anyone who thinks the postwar family automobile au-tomobile is going to be a complicated compli-cated and costly creation apparently appar-ently hasn't reckoned with Henry Ford. The veteran auto manufacturer who first brought the price of cars down to the average man's level was releaved Thursday to have plans for a postwar version of his famed "model A" and Ford dealers here think it will sell for around $500. On the technical side, the new model A is expected to combine all its original simplicity with improvements to boost its speed above its former 63-mile-an-hour-limit and cut gas consumption to get 20 or more miles per gallon. Ford .. Motor Co. officials here said an announcement of the new model A was scheduled for next week, but confronted with advance ad-vance reports, confirmed that "that's what it looks like." The new model A apparently will mark Ford's bid to regain undisputed domination in the low I car field. In the immediate pre- t I war period, Fords were selling for about the same price as the lowest priced product of both the Chrysler and General Motors corps. |