Word: flivver
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Georges Barbot and the famous "air flivver " in which he won 25,000 francs for crossing the English Channel arrived at Roosevelt Field, L. I., in preparation for a flight to Chicago...
Accompanied by the large De Havilland airplanes, the flivver maneuvered beautifully, to the surprised admiration of many experts. But per-haps the most extraordinary feature of the monoplane is its ability to get away from the ground at not more than 15 miles an hour, and to land in any small field after a very short run of perhaps 50 feet...
...short time ago Georges Barbot, a Frenchman, glided across the English Channel in his one-passenger "flivver" monoplane. It took him 44 minutes to make the trip, and he used less than one gallon of gasoline in his 15 horse-power engine. Incidentally he won a 25,000 franc prize, but that is not the point--its real significance lies in the fact that it has roused England to a realization of her danger from any hostile air-fleet in time...
...André Citroen, who threatens to manufacture an artistic flivver in New Jersey...
...Citroen is a 10 h.p. machine, which does 40 miles to the gallon, costs $1,000 and is known as the "flivver of France." In the new combination machine the speed will be reduced from 30 to 20 miles an hour...