- The Ford
Flivver is a single-seat
aircraft introduced by
Henry Ford as the "Model T of the Air".
After a
fatal crash of a
prototype into the
ocean off...
- Look up
flivver or
fliver in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Flivver is
early twentieth-century
American slang for an automobile,
frequently used for...
- The
Flivver King: A
Story of Ford-America is a 1937
novel written by
American muckraker and
author Upton Sinclair. The plot
revolves around the lives...
- (1927), and The
Flivver King (1937)
describe the
working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto
industries at the time. The
Flivver King
describes the...
-
slang terms used to
describe such cars, such as beater, clunker, chod,
flivver, hooptie/hoopty, jalopy, old
banger (most
commonly used in the UK), but...
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interest his
daughters in
taking a
flight but
after looking at the
rickety "
flivver",
Amelia promptly asked if they
could go back to the merry-go-round. She...
-
Sinclair created a
fictional description of Ford in the 1937
novel The
Flivver King.
Symphonic composer Ferde Grofé
composed a tone poem in
Henry Ford's...
- The
Flivver Lo-V was a New York City
Subway car type
built in 1915 by the
Pullman Company for the IRT and its successors,
which included the New York...
- Luke's
Fatal Flivver is a 1916
American short comedy film
starring Harold Lloyd.
Harold Lloyd as
Lonesome Luke Snub
Pollard (as
Harry Pollard) Bebe Daniels...
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Admiral Hiram Paulding (1797–1878). Like the Smiths, they were
nicknamed "
flivvers"
after the
small and
shaky Model T Ford once the
larger "thousand tonner"...
