The word Flivver is most commonly meant to indicate a Ford Model T. In a more general sense, a small, cheap car is meant.
In Aldous Huxley'sBrave New World, Henry Ford has been deified, and the flivver becomes a stand-in for Heaven: "Ford's in his flivver, and all's well with the world."
The word has also been applied to small (750-ton) destroyers and small airplanes. In 1928, Nikola Tesla received patents for an apparatus for aerial transportation. Tesla called it the "Flivver".
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A few days after this declaration, Henry Ford celebrated his sixty-third birthday by exhibiting his long-looked-for "sky flivver," the secrets of which had been guarded for months.
Later, observers watched it spin down a country road like an automobile, the tail skid having been replaced by a wheel, thus demonstrating how easily the owner of such a machine could drive it from his home to any open place for takeoff.
At present the "flivver" is driven at a speed of 100 miles an hour by a three-cylinder air-cooled motor.
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