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June 21, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 41' had bee~ sold everywhere) and the new cars themselves, the GrahamPaige four-speed drive proving an especially attractive feature in Europe because of its great advance over the four speeds spur-gear transmissions commonly used there. The widespread overseas selling organization of Graham-Paige now includes 122 distributors, with dealer connections covering 70 countries. These distributors now take 13 percent of the company's total production. Eighteen factory representatives maintain contact with the foreign distributors and dealers, operating from such strategic points as Johannesburg, South Africa; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Paris, London ; Berlin ; Colombo, Ceylon ; Singapore, Straits Settlements; Sydney, Australia and Mexico City. · Hanson Motors of Winnetka is th~ Graham-Paige dealer. Long Wheelbase oi Graham-Paige in Pierce-Arrow Is Motor Briefs Eighth Position Comfort Provider ~-----------.J . in M ot.o r Exports "What is the wheelbase?" is one of the questions most commonly asked by motor car buyers, according to ] ames G. Barber of Evanston, North Shore . Pierce-Arrow dealer. Most people, says Mr. Barber, ask it to measure mentally the sjze of a car ; few realize its importance as an index of comfort and' safety. · Just as a Pullman coach with its long "wheelbase" travels smoothly and steadily, while the now obsolete "Toonerville" trolley type of street car with its· short base pitches up and down, so an automobile with a long wheelbase has a stability which cannot be approached by cars of short span. Long wheelbases always have been the rule in the Pierce-Arrow cars. To this length of wheelbase can be attributed much of the ability of Pierce-Arrows to travel smoothly at high rates of speed on roads whose roughness compels shorter cars to proceed at a slower pace. Pierce-Arrow's two new groups of Straight Eights have the largest wheelbases of any Pierce-Arrows of recent years-133 inches in one instance, and 143 inches in the other. Exceptionally long springs, suspended in squeakproof bal1-b~aring shackles, and governed by hydraulic shock absorbers, add their contribution to the long, lowswung design. FE.R RANDAU, director of motor coach department of Dodge Brothers, a unit of Chrysler Corporation, analyzing the use of the school bus, reports that the gain in the use of these buses by rural and city schools is reflected in the fact that 360,000,000 children were carrjed by school buses last year, a gain of more than 51.000,000 over the previous year. On January 1 of this year there was a total of 15.930 schools in America operating 40,875 buses, compared with 14,650 schools operating 39.960 buses on th{) same date the year before. Everywhere throughout the country larg-e consolidated school buildings are being erected. Children have better teachers. the standard of studies ha been rai sed and it is necessarv to transport these children to and from the :'cllools in buses. H. A . the In little more than twelve months; Graham-Paige has become one of the leaders in the export of American motor ~ars, having risen to eighth place in the number of units sent to foreign countries (Canadian shipments not included). Overseas shipments in May were 1235, bringing the total for the first five months of the year to 6,262, more than three times the figure for the same period last yeat \Nhen Graham-Paige was introduced at the beginning of last year, the company had only the nucleus of an overseas selling organization. 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