 the ford squire is a car which was produced by ford of britain from 1955 to 1959. it was a two-door, four-seat estate design, the brother to the ford prefect 100e four-door saloon, sharing the same 1172 cc ford sidevalve  engine and other parts and the same interior trim. it was substantially shorter than both the prefect and the closely related ford anglia 100e two-door saloon. it used the short front doors of the four-door model because the bodyshell was optimized for use as a panel van (which was marketed as the thames 300e). the rear door was in two pieces split horizontally. the rear seat could be folded flat to convert from a four-seater to a load carrier. until 1957 there were wood trim pieces screwed to the sides of the vehicle. the squire competed in the same market segment as the hillman husky and the austin a30 / a35 based estate: these were significantly more popular in the uk than longer estates at the time. total production was 17,812 cars. the british motor magazine tested a squire in 1955 recording a top speed of  and acceleration from 0- in 20.2 seconds and a fuel consumption of . the test car which had the optional heater cost Â£668 including taxes. ==ford escort== the ford escort was a mechanically identical estate car but based on the ford anglia which had a lower trim level. this proved more popular and a total of 33,131 escorts were produced between 1955 and 1961. production of the escort continued until 1961, two years longer than the squire. some years later, the ford escort name was also used for two other small cars, manufactured in europe and north america. [[file:ford escort 1172cc 1960.jpg|left|thumb|265px|a less expensive variant of the ford sq
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