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<LEGEND>
Financial Services Segment - This schedule contains summary financial 
information extracted from Ford's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated October
14, 1998 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial
statements.  The error message indicated on this FDS is a result of the EDGAR
system's inability to accept multiple Article 5 Financial Data Schedules. 
Accordingly, the error message should be ignored. 
</LEGEND>
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