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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1928
DISTRIBUTORS OF WACO FORECAST BANNER YEAR; BANQUETED BY OFFICERS

Inspection Made of Local Plant and Demonstration Given of Different Type Airplanes

Representatives of 14 of the distributors of the Waco plane are in Troy attending a sales convention held by the Advance Aircraft company preparation for the launching of the sales for the new year.
Wednesday morning was spent in demonstrating, at the local airfield Wacos equipped with the various types of motors to be used in 1928.
The distributors were especially interested in the new nine-cylinder, air-cooled German motor which the company has been testing.
T.C. Ryan, builder of Col. Charles Lindbergh's plane, was present as the representative of the Siemens-Halsk Motor company of Berlin to explain the features of the new engine.
Mr. Ryan has severed his connection with the company which built the Lindbergh plane and is now the American representative of the German motor company.
At noon the company entertained the visiting salesmen to a dinner at the Hotel Lollis. Following the dinner a round-table discussion was held by the outstrips all other. They declared that the volume of sales this year will be regulated only by the limit of production.
During the afternoon the distributors spent the time at the factory in consultation with the factory executives in regard to their individual problems and conditions confronting them. Several of the visitors left for their homes Wednesday evening but others remained over until Thursday.
Representatives of the following distributing agencies attended the sales meeting:
American Aircraft corporation, Los Angeles, Cal.; Knapp Flying service, Ypsilanta, Mich.; Tex LeGrange, Kansas City, Mo.; L.O. Yost, Pinehurst, N.C.; Ludington Exhibition company, Philadelphia; Midwest Airways, Monmouth. Ill.; New England Aircraft corporation, Hartford, Conn.; North Airways. Inc., Wausau, Wis.; Clyde Shockley, Kokomo, Ind.; Midsouth Airways, Memphis, Tenn.; Southern Dusting company, Tallulah, La.; West Virginia Waco Sales, Wheeling, W. Va.; E.M Ronne, Buffalo, N.Y.; Charles Prohinsie, Long Island. N.Y.

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waste basket- save it for 
up what a laugh he will 
[[?]] some rememberance too, perhaps.
Mom.
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[card, from what is seen]
[[?]] AIRWAYS, INC.
[[?]] CREDITED
[[?]] OF AVIATION 
[[?]] Euclid Ave.
[[?]] CLEVELAND AIRPORT
[[?]] ing courses- by ex-war pilots [[?]] ment of Commerce licenses.
[Insigna with inscription: [[?]] WACO AIRPLANES
ADVANCE AIRCRAFT CO, TROY, OHIO
Air Taxi Service
-Classes Begin April 28, 1928

[Image of a boat captioned "UPPER LAKE FLEET. CANADA]
[Image of plane with crowd with inscriptions
Top Right Corner:
[[?]] Billy [[?]] + wife
Bottom left Corner:
The Meyers [[?]] Phila-Races 1926]