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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joncarrfarrelly" data-source="post: 274551">The 1934 design was to have a V-16 engine designed by Harry Miller that never became a reality.The V-16 was one of a family of notional aircraft engine designs by Miller in the early to late 30s,various capacity V-12 and V-16, inverted and upright, layouts were sketched. Author Mark Dees,The Miller Dynasty, is of the opinion that these basic designs are the same ones that Preston Tucker later flogged to the Navy and Army in an attempt to gain funding for an engine plant. Theinspectors were not impressed with Tucker's promises or facilities, and rightfully so as Tucker hada habit of making promises he couldn't keep.References:The Miller Dynasty, Mark L. Dees, revised 2nd. ed., Hippodrome 1993Miller: Cars and Biography, Griffith Borgeson, MBI 1993The Marvelous Mechanical Designs of Harry A. Miller, Gordon Eliot White, Iconographix 2004</blockquote>