“AIR FLIVVERS.”
ON SALE IN STORES. SAN FRANCISCO Get. 10.
Some of the big department stores arc famed for having on sale everything from a pin to a coffin but on*' of the greatest shops in the country, that of John Wananiaker. in New York, has set out to “lick creation” in having on display for sale. Lord aeroplanes as “regular merchandise.” Iho retail price of the lirst publicly-displayed for sale “air flivvers” of the multi-mil-lionaire of Detroit, arc piloted at 20.00(1 dollar- each. The first plane for the great stofre in Now York, the' J.\f . No 1. loft the Ford airport at Dearborn. Michigan, loaded with an unassembled automobile truck and merchandise, and after stopping at Cleveland for fuel, reached Curtis- Field safely. The truck was assembled there, and ill turn carried the aeroplane to \\ aiiainaker's department store in New York. The ’plane was identical with the machine that made the best elapsed time in the Ed-el Ford endurance test a week previously. Graphically illustrating bis idea of the value of aircraft with a iuh of his hand, and the word- “zip—and you are there!" Henry Kurd described work being done in hi- laboratory at Detroit towards developing an aeroplane for common use. His laboratories at Dearborn. Ford said, are already developing a motor for this type of aeroplane. It will be
an eight-cylinder air-cooled V. type motor, developing 200 horse-power, and
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1925, Page 3
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