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Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Texas, lacks confirmation in view of the spirit exhibited by a dozen Indiana students last week-end. It seems that the students were imbued with the desire to witness the Harvard-Indiana football game, but lacking funds, they were forced to make the thousand-mile trip via foot, flivver, truck, or anything that came along headed in the general direction of the Atlantic Ocean. They saw the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Sleek and slender as its sponsor, the new Ford Six was motored out of the Detroit factory last week as Henry Ford & Edsel watched. The elder man smiled contentedly as it was placed beside the fifteenth million model T flivver. Its maximum speed is 60 miles per hour. And it was the first product of the Detroit plant since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford's Power | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

When Henry Ford marketed his ten millionth flivver, a musician composed a symphonic poem to celebrate the event (TIME, April 25). Edward Phillips Oppenheim has now published his 100th novel,* and though not one of his creations has been a flivver, somebody should salute Mr. Oppenheim with at least a small trumpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Number 100 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Rapid City police learned that a wrecked flivver had been found near their town with these words scrawled on the windshield: "I do not choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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