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Here's the link to some great ads and assembly line photos.

http://www.tocmp.com/pix/Cadillac/index.html

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I knew they made engines for tanks for awhile but I've never heard of this

I think they made tanks:

http://www.aaftankmuseum.com/Archive4M42A1.htm

and supplied engines to the M-5

the M-5 light tank, which carried a crew of four. Powered by twin Cadillac engines, it could reach a maximum speed of 40 mph and had an open-road cruising range of 172 miles. It was armed with a .30 caliber machine gun mounted to fire along the same axis as the tank's main armament, a 37mm cannon. When the tracer bullets from the .30 caliber registered on a target, the cannon would be fired, hopefully scoring a direct hit. The M-5 was also armed with two more .30-caliber machine guns, one on the turret and one in the bow. The light tank was employed to provide fire support, mobility and crew protection in screening and reconnaissance missions.

Here is an interesting link about the "1943 Cadillac"

http://www.100megsfree4.com/cadillac/cad1940/cad43s.htm

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The ad reads like the Allison aircraft engine division and the Cadillac division are related in some way. The cutaway of the Allison V12 that highlights some internal engine parts implies that Cadillac supplies these parts for Allison.

I have absolutely no information that any of these inferences are correct. Anyone?

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I am not sure how or if Cadillac is related to Allison, but the Allison "placed limitations on performance" and was pulled for the Rolls Royce Merlin which was built by the Packard Motorcar Division in Detriot. Allison V-1710-39 engine, proved to have limitations in combat operations at higher altitudes.

The first Mustangs were powered with Allison engines, but while this engine performed well at lower altitudes, power output rapidly declined above 12,000 feet. This power problem prompted North American to look at the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine to power the Mustang. The Merlin engine was found to perform extremely well at all altitudes and rapidly increased the flexibility of the aircraft.

http://www.aviationshoppe.com/Rolls-Royce-Merlin.html

The P-51 was an immediate success. It outperformed even the Spitfire, but the Allison engine placed limitations on the performance. In England, a mock-up was devised to use the Rolls Royce Merlin in the P-51 airframe. One concept was to locate the new engine behind the cockpit, but this idea was rejected and the Merlin was mounted in the conventional position in the nose. Four airframes were adapted in England to take the Merlin engine. These planes had deep intakes below the engine for carburetor air. In the meantime, North American had undertaken a similar conversion project and was building two Packard Merlin-powered Mustangs.

http://www.aviation-history.com/north-american/p51.html

It is possible that the P51 image was used to imply SUCCESS, as the P51 has been credited as being responsible for turning the tides in WW2 and I have heard it said it was responsible for winning WW2. If I was Cadillac, I would not want to be known for or associated with the Allison engine. I will do more research on this to see what the relation is but this could be questionable misleading advertising. But we need to do some research on this. I love the P51.

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cadillac supplied internal parts to the allison engines. The M5 Stuart Light Tank actually had a plaque inside stating that it was a Cadillac and sported the twin Cadillac Series 42 V8 engines. The M24 Chaffee, which was the light tank replacment to the M5 (the best 37mm of the war out lived its usefulness so the common 75mm was used on the M24 added to the effectiveness of the tank) The M24 also sported twin Cadillac engines.

Intresting enough these tanks had an automatic transmission that seemlessly combined the twin V8s.

The M5 and M24 were known for being reliable and units that were getting their M5s and M24's retired "lost" them (in other words they weren't turned in whent he new vechicles arrived) and actually ended up keeping them in service for a wide range of duties.

I'm somewhat of WWII buff and combine that with my love for cadillac and this kind of knowledge fills ones head :)

Here's a bunch that I've uploaded to photobucket, I can't remember where I found them, and the quality isn't the greatest but most are somewhat readable:

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Great stuff, thanks for clarifying the Cadillac - Allison connection..

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