I have a photo of a LINC Y install here someplace that shows a CARGO KING decal on the rocker cover. I didn't think to look at the engine itself.

POWER KING is what I was thinking about... ... I think. On the 239 LT engine.

 

Wow, that is some engine!

I'm just repeating what the ford Ad men are saying. Maybe they mean an engine for production for the general public.

 

wick-wiki says that prior to WWII, FoMoCo developed a V12 aircraft engine similar to the Allison. That may be, but...

In 1940, the Brits were desperate, the Luftwaffe was bombing them on a daily basis and they needed Rolls Royce-Merlin aircraft engines for their fighters.

Churchill ask FDR if anyone in the US could build them. FDR approached Henry Ford (in reality they hated each other), asked him if FoMoCo could build them.

Henry agreed, signed the contract, but once FoMoCo's meager engineering dept. looked at the blueprints (Henry could not read a blueprint!) of this complicated engine, they passed.

The contract was passed to Packard, who built over 55,000 of them. Packard made so many changes that simplified the design, that their engine is known as the Packard-Merlin.