Flivver

Flivver

Flivver may refer to:
*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 1926 Henry Ford introduced a flying car called a "Sky Flivver", but the project was canceled after a fatal test crash. In a lesser known definition, it refers to Jay's liver.
*In Aldous Huxley's "Brave 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, which he called the "Flivver".
*The word is also part of the title of a novel by Upton Sinclair, "The Flivver King" published in 1937.
*Willis H. O'Brien directed a short film titled "The Birth of a Flivver" in 1917.
* The nickname for Kingsford High School in the Upper Pennisula of Michigan is the Flivvers.


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