Flivver
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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 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. Tesla called it the "Flivver".
- The word is also part of the title of a novel by Upton Sinclair, The Flivver King published in 1937.
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