Sunday "Magazine Find" Packard LIBERTY Aircraft engine

[1937hd45]

When listing books and magazines for internet listings you need to flip through them for notes and damage. That fifty dollar bill bookmark is a total myth, but I keep looking. The Worlds Work from 1919 looked like a boring political work to me, but look at the LIBERTY V12 photos! I never knew there were different models of them. Bob 

Edited March 12, 2023 by 1937hd45 (see edit history)

[Leif in Calif]

I know a guy who restores early power boats. I've seen a couple of versions of the Liberty used in 20's water craft. I'm sure you could buy one for almost nothing about 1920. They were manufactured by Packard and others, designed over just a couple of days in 1917 by Jesse Vincent of Packard and E.J. Hall of Hall-Scott. It was rushed to production and over 20 thousand were built just as the war was ending. Hall-Scott is largely forgotten today but many of the Liberty's most notable features (such as cam location and cylinder head architecture) are typical of Hall-Scott.