Millikan Motors - 1929
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MILLIKAN MOTORS
Local Graham-Paige Distributor Makes Plans for Public Celebration of First Anniversary.
YEAR IN BUSINESSThe Millikan Motors, the local distributor of the Graham-Paige automobile with headquarters at 1314 Twelfth avenue, day after tomorrow, Friday Nov. 8, will launch the celebration of its first anniversary in business. It wiII be marked by a visit from Robert C. Graham, one of the trio of Graham brothers and vice president in charge of sales of the Graham-Paige corporation, and other notables connected with the factory organization and a dinner at the Penn-Alto hotel. A presentation of the new 1930 cars to the public will be observed for a week ending Saturday a week.
The anniversary dinner will be tendered to the factory officials and the dealers in the fifteen county territorial area of the Millikin company. It extends from the New York to the Maryland line and from Mifflin to Westmoreland county. There will be thirty-nine dealers and their bankers in attendance. These factory representatives will be present: Robert C. Graham, F. R. Valpey, general sales manager; W. C. Fage, eastern divisional sales manager; C. R. Arenchield, district manager at Philadelphia; 0. P. Smith, divisional service manager; Hubert A. McNally, executive secretary Graham-Paige Legion; Guy A. Willey, Philadelphia, distributor; W. E. Biggers, Buffalo distributor; E. S. Carpenter, Pittsburgh distributor. Other guests will include President Judge John E. Evans of Cambria county and John Lloyd, president of the First National bank of Altoona. There will be talks by Mr. Graham and others of the guests.
M. M. Millikan, vice president and general manager of the company is greatly pleased with the success of the first year in business in the central Pennsylvania field. The company was launched Nov. 8, 1928, with one man as the nucleus of the present organization. He was Mr. Millikan and since then the organization has expanded to include forty-nine dealers in addition to the personnel of the Altoona agency which now numbers forty-seven.
The company located at 1314 Twelfth avenue and after establishing offices and display room it moved for the establishment of a service department and station, one of the most complete in equipment in this section of the state. Machine equipment to the value of $12,000 is installed and Graham-Paige parts, valued at $10,000, are in stock to meet the demands of car owners In the territory.
Mr. Millikan is delighted with the I progress made in the first year, his company, according to figures, ranking fourth in the Altoona field in the number of cars sold during the year. It has sold 9 per cent of cars of all makes and 17 per cent of cars, excluding the cars not in its sales class. On July 22 the corporation fixed the sales quota for the United States for the year and the Millikan company was the first to reach its quota. For the observance of the anniversary the sales and service departments have been appropriately decorated for the occasion and one of its special features will be an exterior lighting display arranged in cooperation with the Penn Central Light & Power company.
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