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... BUYS ENGINE PLANT FOR IMMEDIATE PRODUCTION BEGINNING of large scale production of liquidcooled engines for the Tucker '48 was announced by Preston Tucker with purchase of the Aircooled Motors, Inc., plant at Syracuse, N.Y., from Republic Aviation Corporation, just as this issue of Topics was going to press. "We hope to produce many engines a day within the next several weeks," Mr. Tucker said, "after which we will shift the major operation to our Chicago plant to accelerate ovir own engine program and expand production of aircraft engines now in production and on order." The purchase price for the Republic subsidiary was $1,800,000. The plant last year earned a net of $398,000 and in the first two months of 1948 had a profit of $162,000, indicating earnings of close to $1,000,000 for the year. "Acquisition of this plant will enable us to get into immediate production of our automotive engine," Mr. Tucker added, "the flat, sixcylinder, liquidcooled opposed type which was designed for production in our Ypsilanti, Mich., plant." Mr. Tucker emphasized that his own automotive engine program would in no manner effect a cut in the Syracuse plant's engine output for the aviation industry. "On the contrary," he said, "we plan production of aircraft engines far in excess of the plant's ...
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