Production Month

Total Cars Shipped

Cumulative Total

   Engine Nos.
  From         To

Notes on specific cars [ by engine number, where known ]

Dec.29

3

3

1

3

#1 [shipped 12.28.1929; #2 = 4264B [body #1 ???]

Jan.30

5

8

4

8

Feb.30

367

375

9

375

#12 = style 4375S [to NY]; #21 = engine only, with radiator & shell; #22 = 4375S, body #50; #23 =  4302?, body #3?; #38 = 4375S, body #45 [Don Lee showroom V16, later chopped to truck, then maybe 4302]; #72 = [believed] 4330S then body replaced with Style #3982, body #7, from a V-8 car;  #96=4330S, body#17, advertised in Self-Starter classifieds, Nov.-Dec. 2014; #100 = 4130S [for L.P. Fisher]; #101 = 4355S [went to Denver, CO]; #115 = 4355, body #4  [Rik LeForge former "Ole Yeller", now J.B. Nethercutt]; #130 = 4302, body #3 [special show car]; #132 = 4375  [installed later in a 1933 custom Chrysler Imperial by Lou Fageol]; #149 = 4380, body #1; #150 = 4380, body #1 [destroyed and re-bodied with style 3882]; #156 = 4302 body 29; #163 = 4330 [Robert Taunton]; #169 = 4375-S, body #76 [currently,1998, is a bare chassis - was initially for sale in Bedford, VA, 10/1959 for $125!]; #194 [believed to be now a repro 4302 - per Rik LeForge; #266 = possibly a bare chassis w/ 4260 style hood for the Maharajah of Orchha - shipped 17.7.1931 to Bombay;  #283 = now a spare engine (offered for sale on eBay, 12/2003;  #298 = 3991 [V8 body on V16 chassis, possibly Ernestine Schumann-Heink car - has survived]; #321 = 4375S, body #333;  #333 = maybe 4302, in France; #353 = 4302 (?) {offered at auction in Geneva, Switzerland, in the nineties); #335 = 4235 for C.T. Fisher

Mar.30

436

811

376

811

#416 = [currently] 4302 [but is a replacement motor]; #425 = demo engine; #466 = demo engine [Gilmore Museum]; #476 = 4330, body #99; #482 =  4330, body #95 [converted to 4302, body #32]; #492 = 4325; #494 = 4380, body #19 - Hopalong Cassidy car, studio photos exist]; #499 = 4375, converted body 3880 to 4380 ; #519 = 4375S [rusted hulk]; #543 = 4380, body #34 [built Fleetwood, PA - early '30 details]; #556 = 4260 [W.A. Fisher]; #655 = 4380 [survivor]; #666 = ??? [currently in a boat hauler!]; #665 = 4260; #666 = 4361S [seen by Rick LeForge in Oregon]; #697 = 4302 [Marc Ohm restoration]; #716 = unk. [currently (2004) a Fisher-bodied AWP]; #731=custom ambulance (rebody?); #733 = 4330S [body #137 - it was exported]; #759 = 4361S, body #52, ex-Harrah collection];  #789 = 4375, body #157; #807 = engine tested by Lycoming Motors, 06.27.1930; #809 = 4302 [survivor]

May.30

442

1829

1388

1829

#1401 = 4330S [shipped to Brooklyn. NY]; #1432 = 4302, body #26 [Briggs Cunningham Museum]; #1467 = 4330S, body #27; #1495 = 4380, body #98 [orig. body destroyed, now 4302, body #20]; #1501 = 4380 [shipped to Washington, DC]; #1502 = 4375S [survivor]; #1519 = 4375S (hearsay) [engine only - could be also #1919]; #1530 = 4220 town car [shipped to Buenos Aires, Argentina], motor currently in Spain, in a racing car; #1540 = 4376, body #53; #1550 = 4175S [for C.T. Fisher]; the next five VINs are in sequential order; these are the five V-16s that were taken off the line specifically to be shipped to Copenhagen for the promotional tour of Europe from June to September, 1930:  #1551 = 4264B (left factory June 10) ; #1552 = 4330S (left June 6); #1553 = 4175 (left June 10); #1554 = 4260 (left June 11) [this was body #2; it was later removed and replaced with convertible sedan body by Saoutchik (I have the build sheet³) - Steven Nanini, CLC Senior car #141];  #1555 = 4235 (left June 11); #1561=4380 [first sold in NY, later went to France circa 1990]: #1608 = 4330S, body #320; #1609 = 4175, body #24]; #1617=4375 [ex-Capone armored limousine]; #1658 = 4330S, body #95 [converted to 4302 ??? -  in France]; #1659 = 4175, body #24 [J.C. Leake, "V" windshield "Madame X"]; #1673 = 4375S, body #399; #1697 = 4380 [???]; #1701 = 4375S [shipped to Oklahoma City]; #1725 [blank record - possibly "demo" engine on show at Olympia, London, Oct. 1930]; #1733 = 4276 or 4376 ??? [body junked, now engine only]; #1755 = 4130S [for C.T. Fisher]; #1758 = 4355 (#32); #1769 = 4175 (or 4175S) [sold at Scottsdale, 24.1.1986 for $64000; #1772=4376, body #74, [offered for sale, Dec. 2011]; #1801 = 4376 [shipped to Los Angeles]; #1810 = 4381, body #19;

Jun.30

384

2213

1830

2213

#1834 = 4380 AWP [Dick Shappy]; #1849 = 4257A or 4257H [Joe Moore]; #1866 [powers a hot rod built in the 40s (added 2010)]; #1877 = 4302, body #58; #1878(?) may be a 4260 phaeton or 4380 AWP, located in Peru (1999); #1881 = 4281, body #19; #1901 = 30-168 Fisher conv. coupe [factory service car]; #1954 = 4302, body #73 [later replaced with body from #1070?]; #2025 = 4335 [restored 2001]; #2029-4225 [Cecil B. DeMille]; #2042 = 4130S [destroyed by fire; now carries Fleetwood V8 town car style #3912; located in Japan]; #2050 = 4175 [now engine only]; #2054 = 4155S, body #2 [formerly Wayne Merriman coll.]; #2055 = 4155S [ body #2 ????]; #2056 = 4130 [ex-Serge Pozzoli, France, chassis 2024(?)]; #2073 = Nordberg town car; #2070 = 4302, body #77 [has disc wheels]; #2089 = 4335; #2101 = 4130S [shipped to Bloomfield N.J.] (???); #2103 = 4130S [for sale on eBay, 10/2005]; #2104 = 4261S?  [body destroyed; now engine only, put in repro 4302?]; #2117 = Fisher custom LX2913 shipped 21 June to CT]; #2137 = 4302 ???; #2152 = 4276, body #14)

Jul.30

297

2510

2214

2510

#2225 = o/s engine now; #2232 = 4175S, body #42; #2236 = 4130S [for F.J. Fisher]; #2246 = 4276, body #17 [engine number changed?]; #2261 = 4276 [body destroyed; now engine only]; #2270 = possibly custom job for W.A. Fisher]; #2280 = 4175, body #90 [RHD - to Antwerp?]; #2291 = 4276 [new, 10/2004]; #2297 = Van den Plas landaulet [RHD, body No. 556 - shipped to London; later Lyon Classic Cars, L.A.]; #2298=Van den Plas [apparently built originally for the VERY wealthy Nabab (ruler) of Bahawalpur, currently (2011-12) in Pakistan]; #2338 = 4302 ???; #2363 = 4235 [in Sweden, 10/2000]; #2381 = 4235 [a survivor]; #2388 = Fisher custom LX2905; #2401 = 4260 [auctioned 2/06]; #2402 = 4375, first owned by President of Mexico, then by a Mr. Weaver, then John O'Sullivan (who restored it), then Ed Meurer ; #2408 = 4260, body #34; #2414 = 4275, body #47 [shipped to London];  #2415 = 4330S, #2425 = 4260 [late Dick Gold, body #33 - now Fred Weber? - not 100% sure!]; 2455 = coupe style; #2478 = 4260, body #55 for Richard Arlen, Hollywood star [Edward Dauer, CLC Senior car #142]; #2486 = 4276, body #54 [registered in 1931]; #2488 = 4375, body #319 [Ben LeForge]; #2494 = 4380[?]

Aug.30

166

2676

2511

2676

#2514 = 4260 [Fred Weber - rebody??? - Fred also has/had Dick Gold's "4260", below]; #2515 = 4260 [Otis Chandler]; #2573 = 4235, body #45; #2584 = 4155C [Body #18, currently in Zurich; worked for many years as firehouse ladder vehicle near Zürich, Switzerland; was for sale in Germany, 2/2014]; this range includes also style #4200, built in Aug. 1930);  #2643 = 4375 [was destroyed in a fatal accident in Sweden];  #2588 = 4260, body #41;   #2594 = 4276, body #71; #2619 = 4235 ??? [owned by Bud Tinney, Fla.]; #2631 = 4375 [body junked - now engine only - former White House ???]; #2636 = 4380 [Elliott Klein]; #2643=4380; #2655 = 4235 [Brent Merrill]

Sep.30

82

2758

2677

2758

#2677 = 4260, body #25 [factory says shipped 30 Aug. to Don Lee - did Don lee fit the second cowl & windshield?]; #2648 (body #357) = 4330S [added 7/2000]; #2682 = 4260, body #8 [like #2677, this car is reported to have been fitted with a dual cowl and secondary windshield];  #2691 = 4260, body #7 [like #2677 and  #2682, this car too is reported to have been fitted with a dual cowl and secondary windshield]; #2734 = 4260 shipped to Berlin]; #2746 = 4175 [RHD] "Madame X" [body #70, originally shipped to Madrid, then Governor of Gibraltar]; could be chassis #2877 owned by German collector Dirk Mueller [car reported as having been delivered first to Governor of Gibraltar]; #2747 = 4380 [RHD] , shipped to Port Elisabeth, South Africa]; #2751 = 4260 [survivor]

Oct.30

54

2812

2759

2812

#2762 = 4375 [shipped to New York and later diverted and exported]; #2769 = 4175 [exported to London]; #2783 = 4375 ???;  #2785 = 4330S;  #2797 (or #2998?) = 4260 [unsure];  #2800 = bare chassis [exported to Paris - possibly Kellner town car or Saoutchik 5-pass. convertible Victoria]; #2802 = bare chassis [exported to Stockholm]; #2807 = 4235, body #91; #2809 = 4175MmeX;

Nov.30

33

2845

2813

2845

Dec.30

38

2883

2846

2887

#2856 = 4375S [exported to Antwerp, Belgium]; #2861 = 4375; #2865 = 4391 [exported to Havana, Cuba]; #2871 = 4260 [exported to Bombay, India (for Maharajah of Tikari???)]; #2872 = bare chassis (or 4235 conv. cpe.?); #2873 = bare chassis RHD [exported to London - via; carries convertible Victoria body by Lancefield];  #2876 = 4235 [currently (2003) in Norway];  #2877 = 4260, shipped to NY., 12/24/30, returned (unsold) to factory, shipped to Philadelphia  9/28/31; #2880 = bare chassis (or  4175 body 90), RHD - Madame X, exported to Antwerp & London); #2881 = 4175 (went to Miami); #2882 = 4375 (went to Cincinnati); #2883 = 4312 (went to Boston); #2884 = 4260 (for factory stock); #2885 = 4375 (went to Syracuse); #2886 = 4235 (for factory stock); #2887 = 4375 (last "Series 452"  V-16, for 1930, went to St. Louis; shipped 12.31.30];

Jan.31

25

2908

2888

2908

#2888 = 4330 (?) (1st "Series 452A" V-16, for 1931, went to New Bedford);  #2889 = 4260 (went to Chicago);  #2888 = 4330 (?) (1st 1931 V-16, went to New Bedford);  #2889 = 4380 or 4260? (went to Chicago, then LaRue Thomas in Los Angeles);  #2890 = 4312 (went to Chicago); #2891 = ["43" group sedan?], went to Minneapolis;  #2892 = 4355 (went to Chicago);  #2893 = 4291 (went to Chicago);  #2894 = 4330(?) (went to Chicago); #2895 = 4335(?) Conv. Cpe., Antilles+Boatswain Blue, Wiese Bedford cord, 6 Delphine blue wire wheels, cost $7925 [or $6975?], went to St. Louis; #2905 = AWP, black, Wiese color 3898 [maroon taupe], silver leaf stripe, 6 wire wheels, cost $7925 [or $7205???];

Feb.31

47

2955

2909

2955

#2914 = 4375 [exported to Stockholm]; #2922 = 4375 [under restoration, 5/2004]; #2927 = 4260 [RHD, exported to Bombay, India (possibly for the Maharajah of Tikari???)];  #2946 = 4330S?

Mar.31

37

2992

2956

2992

#2974 was exported to London; #2981 = 4330S [shipped to St. Louis, MI] (Matt Larson says 2966) = exported to Antwerp on 17.12.1930 for American millionaire Jay Gould]; #2987 = 4260 ??? [now engine only, put into '34 Ford ?];

Apr.31

47

3039

2993

3039

#2998 (or#2797) = 4260 [unsure]; #3000 = 4291 for crown prince of Thailand; #3002 = 4330S, body #282 per R. LeForge [4361S per Fred Weber and J. Schild; T-boned by a train;  #3006 = 4155 #13, currently [2001] in UK; #3010=[unknown; now (2012) chassis only]; #3026-3029 = unknown [two chassis used for display??? - #3026 is also reported on British style 4381 [reg. London, EUC 510], Motor Sport, 11/62, p. 894 [possibly owing to confusion between engine/chassis Nos.???]

May.31

50

3089

3040

3089

Jun.31

46

3135

3090

3135

#3101 = 4375 [shipped to New York]; $3106 = 4375S, body #449; #3108 = 4375, body #411 [known as "blue boy"]; #3110=4380; #3118 = 4302, body #107 [last 4302 built]; #3132 = 4276

Jul.31

17

3152

3136

3152

Aug.31

7

3159

3153

3159

Sep.31

12

3171

3160

3171

Oct.31

14

3185

3172

3185

Nov.31

6

3191

3186

3191

Dec.31

0

3191

0

0

Jan.32

0

3191

0

0

Feb.32

59

3250

3192

3251

#3192 = [open number - not bodied?]; #3193 = [open number - not bodied?];#3215 = 4375S [offered on Hemmings, 12/2003]; #3220 = 4235 [info from K. Kraakmo]; #3223 = possibly 4302 in France; #3225 = 4260, body #85; #3227 = 4391 ??? [car desgtroyed - now engine only]; #3232 = [shipped 2.20.32 - last unit from factory???]; #3245 = 4380, body #363 [survivor]; #3249 = 4260, body #71 [survivor]; #3251 = 4355, to NY [lot may have included style 3289B town car (1932?)]; 3252 = [Last V16] (not 3251 ????)

Exported cars: Seventy units are reported to have been exported, but the total, in fact, comes to seventy-two units if we include the two cars sent to San Juan, in Puerto Rico (that island was taken over by the USA during the Spanish American war of 1898, although it has always maintained autonomy as a  "free commonwealth associated with the USA").  The seventy remaining cars went to Antwerp, Belgium (14 units), Madrid, Spain (12 units), Berlin, Germany (11 units - of which one style 4325C town car landaulet, license #1A75825), Mexico City, Mexico (7 units), Paris, France (6 units - of which at least one style 4130 and one 4330 or 4375 with French tourist registration No. 2017XB), Stockholm, Sweden (5 units), Copenhagen, Denmark (4 units), London, England (2 units),  Buenos Aires, Argentina (2 units - engine #701530 is currently in Spain, in a custom racing car), Havana, Cuba (2 units  - one was a style 4391 Town Car Brougham, the other may have been a style 4175 Imperial), Bombay, India (1 unit - a style 4260 sport phaeton with RHD for the Maharajah of Tikari),  Manila, Philippines (1 unit), Honolulu, Hawaii - Hawaii did not become a State of the Union until August 21, 1959 (1 unit),  Moscow, (former) USSR (1 unit) and Port Elisabeth, South Africa (1 unit - a RHD style 4380 all-weather phaeton).

Fleetwood style 4325C exported to Germany;
this was one of only three units built in 1930-31
702834
702584

Bare chassis for domestic coach-builders: Eleven of them were released from the factory; of these, one is known to have received a roadster body by Rollston, another a phaeton body  by Murphy and a third a town car body by Waterhouse (the first two cars are known to have survived).  Nothing is currently known about the remaining eight units.  I suspect that one of them may have been returned to the factory and given a 1929 sport phaeton body.

The Rollston roadster
Photo: courtesy the late Gene Babow

Export chassis for foreign coach-builders: Twenty-one were thus released.   The following have been identified: a convertible Victoria by Saoutchik¹, France (license # ....RF4, that is October 1931, not a known survivor), a limousine-landaulet by Van den Plas, Belgium (it has survived), a British saloon [sedan] with "sunshine roof" by the U.K. affiliates of  Van den Plas (license #...341; this car has survived and is in Pakistan - June 2004),  a town car landaulet by Kellner, France (not a known survivor), a town car landaulet by Nordberg, Sweden (it too has survived, license #M778), a boat-tailed roadster by Farina, Italy (it too has survived), a roadster by Voll & Ruhrbeck, Germany (not a known survivor).  Two other foreign bodies are suspected of  having been built: another saloon [sedan] by Lancefield of  England - unless that is the car attributed to the U.K. branch of Van Den Plas, above - and a razor-edged town brougham (like Fleetwood style 4264B, but with quarter windows) by Bronkhorst⁴;  I have not been able to determine if this defunct coach-building company was Belgian or Dutch.  That would leave twelve or thirteen of the exported chassis to be accounted for. Who knows, perhaps one or more of them will surface one day ...  Engine #701530 [mentioned above] was brought to my notice in Jan. 2000; currently it is mounted in a custom racer and is located near Alicante, Spain; it was acquired by the present owner in Argentina around 1984.

   
Two custom landaulets: left, by Van den Plas (UK/Belgium), right by Nordberg (Sweden)
[Photos:  left, Gene Babow, right Nordberg archives]

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1 from story in CLC 1988 annual, p.2 [this is possibly also the chassis number]
² see SIA78, p.33 [the "automatic" V16]
³ This was Fisher order #2587; the car was shipped to Copenhagen, Denmark on June 11, 1930 for the European promotional tour.  Upholstery was Radel Spanish grain leather #2400, trim style 19 (or 1930?);  the entire hood, cowl and body panels were painted in R&M Indiana gray (Duco #20157), as were the wheel hubs, spokes and felloes.  The molding and the hood and cowl vents all  were painted Saxon gray (Duco? #2445519);  fenders and chassis were painted Ravenwood brown (Duco #5782). The finish moldings on top of the belt were chrome-plated. Wire wheels (six) were mounted, including two in the fenders; the original tires had black side walls.  A travel trunk was mounted in the rear.  Paris'  Jacques Saoutchik later mounted a sedan body on this engine/chassis combination, with a special sliding roof [in France, it carried license  #8651RK2].  The original sport phaeton body is rumored to have survived and to have been mounted on another V16 chassis. The car was owned in 1960 by an elderly lady (89 years old) and would have been sold at auction by a Paris garage, had she not sent an agent in the nick of time to pay an outstanding repair bill. A few years later the car was acquired [from the elderly lady's estate?] by an auto merchant, Johnny Thuysbaert, then by the late Serge Pozzoli, editor of France's "Le Fanatique de l'Automobile";  Serge sold it to Hubert le Gallais (CEO of   "Poker" beer, in France, and restaurateur in Fontainebleau).  It subsequently returned to the USA where it was completely (over) restored. It has changed hands a few times since then.
⁴  this may have been a modified body on the chassis of  the special Fleetwood town brougham (style 4264B)  that was also one of the six V-16s sent to Europe

Good Reading: England's Motor Sport for 11/62, p.894, recalled that "several" V16s [six to be precise] were seen in Cologne in 1930.  These cars were on a promotional tour of  Europe; they included one each of  the following Fleetwood styles:  4260 phaeton [with French tourist license #2145XB],   4330S 5-pass. sedan [license #2146XB], 4376 2-pass. coupe [license #2147XB (my "logical" guess!)], 4175 Madame X limousine [license #2148XB], 4264B town brougham with canework applied to the lower rear body⁵ [license  #2149XB] and 4235 convertible coupe [license #2150XB] .  I have devoted a special page of the Cadillac Database to the cars of the European Promotional Tour.

The European tour V-16s line up at the border between
France and Spain,  near Hendaye (France)

 

The Motor Sport article mentions also a chassis with "English" coachwork, shown at Olympia, in 1930 [this may have been the sport saloon with body by Lancefield or by the U.K. branch of  Van den Plas (engine #2873?)].  The cost of a bare chassis was given as £1500 and that of an imperial limousine [4175 or 4375 ?] as £2450.  

This image is from "Vintage Cars - Motoring in the 1920s" by Cyril Posthumus, courtesy of Rick LeForge;
it shows what an export chassis with right-hand drive (RHD) would look like; this line drawing appeared
first in a British motoring magazine [Motor Sport?] reporting on  the Olympia Motor Show, London, in 1930

A Motor Trend article published in January 1965 said that two V16s were shown at the NY auto show in the week of  01.04.1930 [it has been ascertained that one was Pennsylvania-built Fleetwood style 4155C "Madame X" landaulet, which was later renamed as 4108C following the addition of a light-colored fabric top [possibly by the Don Lee Cadillac subsidiary in San Francisco] - the other is believed to have been Fleetwood style 4264B, one of three razor-edged town broughams with canework applied to the lower rear body; this may have been the car used on the European Tour⁵. 

The 1000th V-16 engine was shipped on April 8, 1930.  Total production during the first year was 2887 units.  Prices for the new models ranged from $5350- $15000.
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5  As mentioned in the preceding "box", this car may have been re-bodied by the Dutch or Belgian coach-builder, Bronkhorst

Miscellaneous notes: The bare V16 chassis [costing $4800] was not included on the V-16 price list after October 1930.

Useful books/articles on file (or wanted):

-  Automotive Industries, November 12, 1938
-  The production Figure Book of US Cars, Jerry Heasly
-  Kelley Wholesale Blue Book, March-April 1940
-  Motor Trend, January 1965

V-16s reportedly owned by film stars and other (sometimes notorious) personalities:

-  1933 All-weather phaeton (ex-Al Jolson - former Harrah collection);   see "Star Cars 1" section
-  1933 Convertible Victoria (ex-Robert Montgomery); see "Star Cars 2" section
-  1933 Town car (ex-Joan Crawford, now Hillcrest Cadillac, LA);  see "Star Cars 1" section
-  1933 Town car (ex-Marlene Dietrich, according to the Keyaerts Museum in Langeais, France,
    but possibly confusion with the 1935 town car she owned (see below);   see "Star Cars 1" section
-  1933 Aerodynamic coupe 5899 (ex-William Knudsen, GM - he had use of the unique World's Fair
    car until he got body #1 of the 1934 production;  see "Star Cars 1" section
-  1934 Aerodynamic coupe 5899 (see above, ex-William Knudsen, body #1 - story by
    Robert De Mars in CLC)
-  1935 Town car (ex-Marlene Dietrich - sold at Sword Auction in 1965; was reported to have gone to
    Australia but  has been located in the Southwark Museum in New Zealand);  see "Star Cars 1"      
    section
-  1938 Formal Sedan (ex-Mae West); see "Star Cars 2" section
-  1938 Conv, coupe (ex-Gary Cooper)
-  1938 Coupe (ex-W.C. Fields);  see "Star Cars 1" section
-  1938 Limousine (ex-Teddy Roosevelt)
-  1938 Stretched parade car (only 2 were built as White House security cars - both have survived);
    see "Star Cars 2" section
-  1939 Sedan (ex-W.C. Fields);   see "Star Cars 1" section
-  1940 Town Car (ex-Eddie Cantor);   see "Star Cars 1" section
-  1940 Town Car (ex-Darryl Zanuck); see "Star Cars 2" section
-  1940 Formal Sedan (ex-Al Capone);   see "Star Cars 1" section

The Al Jolson car, formerly of the
Bill Harrah collection, Reno, NV

Miscellaneous Jottings:

-  An article in Automobile Topics, on March 29, 1930 mentions 31 models in the preliminary
    Price list; it  also explains the new  marketing strategy and refers to the V-16 as a sales "stunt"!
-  Starting with engine #703005 wheel spokes were tapered and  7.00x19 tires fitted
-  Starting with engine #702502 the oil dip-stick was moved from the rear of the engine to the side
-  RHD cars; it has been said [inter alia by Dave Towell, Cadillac dealer in Akron, OH] that all Cadillac export
   chassis were RHD; I have encountered only 10 of them in my ongoing research:

   #702280 (style 4175, to Antwerp & London),
   #702297 (bare chassis, to London, landaulet-Limousine by Van den Plas),
   #702298 (bare chassis, to london, limousine with cycle fenders by Van den Plas and/or Lancefield, exported to Pakistan),
   #702746 (style 4175, "Madame X", originally shipped to Madrid for Governor of Gibraltar)
   #702747 (style 4380, to Port Elizabeth),
   #702871 (style 4260, exported, to [???] then to the Maharaja of Tikari, India) 
   #702873 (bare chassis, to London - convertible Victoria by Lancefield, UK),
   #702880 (style 4175, exported, where?),
   #702927 (regular style 4260, exported, to [???] then to the Maharaja of Tikari, India)
   Between #703136 and #703152 (exported to Turin, boat-tail speedster, Maharajah of Orccha)

-  On the 1933 V-16 models there is no V16 nameplate or emblem anywhere on the car
-  On the World's Fair V-16, in 1933, the gas filler spout was located  in the tail-light housing
    [cf. Robert De Mars story in CLC Annual Self-Starter, Fall 1974 issue]

 

(résumé en français)

Le tableau ci-dessus fournit les statistiques de fabrication mensuelles des Cadillac à moteur seize cylindres,   années 1930-31.  On constatera que le gros de la production se situe entre février et juillet 1930.  Par la suite ces unités de très grand luxe ne seront construites qu'au compte-gouttes.

Sur 3251 chassis-moteurs sortis d'usine, soixante-douze voitures complètes furent exportés, dont 14 vers la Belgique, 12 vers l'Espagne, 11 vers l'Allemagne, 7 vers le Mexique, 6 vers la France, 5 vers la Suède,  4 vers le Danemark, 2 vers le Royaume-Uni, 2 vers l'Argentine, 2 vers Cuba, 2 vers Porto Rico et 1 chacune vers l'Inde, les Philippines, Hawaii, l'URSS,  et l'Afrique du Sud.

Onze chassis nus furent livrés à des carrossiers indépendents aux Etats-Unis.  Seuls trois exemplaires ont été répertoriés à ce jour:  un spider carrossé par Rollston, un phaéton par Murphy et un Coupé de Ville par Waterhouse.  Il se peut qu'un quatrième chassis ait été renvoyé à l'usine pour y recevoir une carrosserie de 1929 (phaéton sport à parebrise AR rabattable).   On ne sait rien des sept chassis manquants. 

Par ailleurs, vingt-et-un chassis nus furent exportés pour être habillés par des carrossiers autres que Fisher et Fleetwood, les deux carrossiers attitrés de la GM.  On a répertorié entre autres un cabriolet Victoria à cinq places dû au maître carrossier parisien Jacques Saoutchik (a survécu), un Coupé de Ville landaulet par Van den Plas en Belgique (a survécu), une berline sport à toit ouvrant par Van den Plas au Royaume-Uni, un Coupé de Ville landaulet par le parisien Kellner, une carrosserie semblable par Nordberg en Suède (a survécu), un spider bateau par Farina en Italie (a survécu) et un spider normal par Voll & Ruhrbeck en Allemagne.  Je soupçonne également la fabrication d'une berline par Lancefield au Royaume-Uni [à moins qu'il ne s'agisse de la berline Van den Plas fabriquée dans ce pays], de même qu'un Coupé de Ville par Bronkhorst (Pays-Bas), avec vitres de custodes et cannage sur les flancs at à l'arrière [à moins qu'il ne s'agisse encore d'une modification ultérieure du Coupé de Ville type 4264B par Fleetwood, lequel faisait partie d'un cortège de six V16 qui firent un tour d'Europe en juin/jiuillet 1930 à des fins publicitaires].  Reste donc une douzaine de chassis/ carrosseries à retrouver. Où donc se cachent-ils.

A titre d'information encore, le moteur no. 701530 qui au demeurant équipait un Coupé de Ville Fleetwood type 4220 se trouve actuellement près d'Alicante, en Espagne.  Il sert à la motorisation d'une barquette de course construite sur place, semble-t-il.   Ce moteur provient d'Argentine [acheté  là-bas  en 1984].   S'agirait-il du moteur de l'une des 2 voitures exoprtées là-bas en 1930-31?