Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Model 31, prototype of P4Y-1 patrol bomber

View of a Model 31 aircraft, manufactured by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, a prototype of the P4Y-1 patrol bomber. Label on back: "From: Hill & Knowlton. For: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, California. Hailed by Navy as fastest flying boat ever built in America, if not in the world, is Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation's Model 31, prototype of the P4Y-1, which is to go into production at the New Consolidated Plant at New Orleans. Announced by Rear Admiral Ralph E. Davison, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, USN, the new patrol plane has been designed for combat and cargo duty. The Consolidated Vultee P4Y-1 will be powered with two 2,000 hp motors, is 74 feet long and 25 feet high and wieghs [sic] about 25 tons. Like the famous Consolidated Liberator B-24 bomber, the Model 31 has a wingspread of 110 feet. The new P4Y-1 will go into mass production as soon as tooling of the New Orleans plant -- now is process -- is completed." Stamped on back: "Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., Lindbergh Field, San Diego, Calif. This picture has been officially released by the Navy Department and permission is hereby granted for its reproduction. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, California." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft in action."