Word: flivvered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
...large majority of us, however, will resort to the more familiar means of the motor car. Many a flivver that has never (under the guidance of its present owner, at least) rattled on any highway beyond walking distance of Cambridge, will find itself drawn into the stream of vehicles headed westward on the fourth of November. Some of us will reserve our favorite Boston taxi, and auction off cubic feet of space in it to the highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago...