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<LEGEND>
Conglomerate Totals - This schedule contains summary financial information
extracted from Ford's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 16, 1996
and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
This schedule supercedes the previously filed schedule in such Report.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> FORD MOTOR COMPANY
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