Word: v12
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warm-up at March Field one day last week she gleamed slimly among the bulb-nosed fighters, the potbellied bombers on the Army Air Corps Southern California airdrome. Major General Henry H. Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used on such a ship without protruding in speed-killing humps on the wing...
Lincoln. All are custom-built except the V12 Lincoln-Zephyrs, which are fundamentally unchanged in design, still look modern after three years. Price...
...Manhattan showrooms, and hotels- however, Ford exhibited the confirmation of a perennial rumor-a medium-priced Ford product. Not a glorified Ford but a completely new car from the Lincoln plants, it was named the Lincoln-Zephyr. Powered with a V12 engine, it is currently made in only two models, a two-door sedan at $1,275 and a four-door at $1,320. Its body construction, like that of the closed Cord models, stems straight from Walter P. Chrysler's adventures in aerodynamics: like the Airflow Chryslers and De Sotos, the Zephyr has no conventional frame; wheels, engine...
Last January when the Speakership plunked into his amiable lap, he was happy. In the Speaker's V12 Cadillac he now rides about, the most contented man in the Capital. No less contented is his wife, daughter of one of Nashville's first families, who now can fulfill her social ambition to sit with him above the salt at Washington's official dinner parties. And "Joe" Byrns, from whose mouth a cigar is rarely missing, seldom buys White Owls or Portinas as he used, to, for the world is only too glad to present the Speaker...
Lincolns with V12 150 h.p. motors and bodies by Brunn, Judkins, LeBaron, Willoughby as well as by Lincoln were scattered around the Show like Fords at a county fair. Redistribution of weight is a feature of the new Lincolns as well as the new Fords...