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1930 LINCOLN PHAETON
Engine: V-8 side-valve, 384ci; Gearbox: three-speed manual with overdrive. Brakes: four-wheel mechanical.
Suspension: semi-elliptic leaf front and rear. Left hand drive.
Henry N. Leland might well be called the renaissance man of the automotive world; he was associated with Henry Ford at the Detroit Automobile Company, had built engines for Oldsmobile, and started the Cadillac company by 1903. Leland also developed the Cadillac V-8 engine for the 1915 model.
Leland resigned from Cadillac in 1917 and began development of another V-8 powered car, which made its debut as the 1921 Lincoln. The engine displaced 5.8-litres and had full pressure lubrication at a time when many U.S. cars were still relying on the splash system to lubricate the engine.
Initially Lincolns were great cars, but their lack-lustre bodywork was a detriment that virtually killed sales. By 1922 the fledgling Lincoln company was in dire financial straits and was taken over by Henry Ford to be made a part of the Ford Motor Company. Both Henry Leland and his son Wilfred resigned a few months later.
Edsel Ford invited outside coachbuilders to submit designs for the Lincoln and cars soon appeared with bodywork by Brumn, Dietrich, LeBaron, Locke, and Murray. It must have worked because sales of Lincolns took off in the late 1920's.
Engine: V-8 side-valve, 384ci; Gearbox: three-speed manual with overdrive. Brakes: four-wheel mechanical.
Suspension: semi-elliptic leaf front and rear. Left hand drive.
Henry N. Leland might well be called the renaissance man of the automotive world; he was associated with Henry Ford at the Detroit Automobile Company, had built engines for Oldsmobile, and started the Cadillac company by 1903. Leland also developed the Cadillac V-8 engine for the 1915 model.
Leland resigned from Cadillac in 1917 and began development of another V-8 powered car, which made its debut as the 1921 Lincoln. The engine displaced 5.8-litres and had full pressure lubrication at a time when many U.S. cars were still relying on the splash system to lubricate the engine.
Initially Lincolns were great cars, but their lack-lustre bodywork was a detriment that virtually killed sales. By 1922 the fledgling Lincoln company was in dire financial straits and was taken over by Henry Ford to be made a part of the Ford Motor Company. Both Henry Leland and his son Wilfred resigned a few months later.
Edsel Ford invited outside coachbuilders to submit designs for the Lincoln and cars soon appeared with bodywork by Brumn, Dietrich, LeBaron, Locke, and Murray. It must have worked because sales of Lincolns took off in the late 1920's.