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All Classic Ads Vintage Collection - Hupmobile related ads
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History of Hupmobile (1909 - 1940)
Robert Craig Hupp was born on June 2nd, 1887, in Grand Rapids, MI. In 1902, Robert began working for Olds Motors. In 1906 he joined Ford Motor Company where he gained knowledge in many automotive areas. In 1908 he left Ford. With his brother Louis, he began seeking financial backing, rented a factory at 345 Bellevue Avenue in Detroit, and began creating a demo vehicle. By 1909, the Hupmobile was created. It was fist shown to the public at the Detroit Auto Show. The vehicle was a two-seater roadster with an 86-inch wheelbase. The $750 sticker price included the 17 horsepower four-cylinder engine and sliding gear transmission.
In its introductory year, over 1500 examples were produced. In 1910, production increased by more than 5000. Hupp understood the need to continue to invest in machinery, technology, and factories. He began investing heavily, to the point that his financial backers became nervous. They did not agree that the company should be overextended. This issue escalated to the point that in 1911, Rober Hupp sold his stock in the Hupp Motor Car Company and began pursuing another automobile production venture. A court order by the purchasers of the stock prevented Robert and Louis from using the Hupp name on any new gasoline automobile.
To get around the court order, Robert began using his initials; much like Ransom E. Olds had done when forced from his company. From 1912 through 1919, Robert Hupp produced RCH electric automobiles. In 1917, Robert died.
The original Hupp Company continued to enlarge and prosper, even after its founder had left. A new plant was purchased in 1924. In 1925 the company purchased the rights to produce an eight-cylinder engine. Unfortunately, the eight-cylinder engine had flaws in its design and assembly and many of the engines suffered from reliability issues.
In 1926 a six-cylinder engine was introduced.
By 1928, sales had reached over 65,000 units and a new plant was needed to handle the continued success the company was experiencing. So the Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corporation was purchased.
The onset of the stock market crash left many manufacturers out of business and others teetering on the brink. For Hupmobile, sales fell by almost 25% in 1929, a few years before the stock market crash.
The Hupmobile continued to introduce innovative designs and technology for the next few years. Racing was a great way of advertising in the early years of automobile production. The outcome of the race often determined how well sales would be. In 1932 a Hupmobile, named the Hupp Comet was entered into the Indianapolis 500 race where it emerged with a respectable fifth place finish.
The depression of the early 1930's began taking its toll on Hupmobile. Archie Andrews began convincing stockholders that the Hupmobile was mismanaged, resulting in a company takeover. By 1935, control had been regained but the damage was done. Production was halted in the latter part of 1935 and the company was forced to sell some of its plants and assets.
It was not until 1938 that the Hupmobile began planning to produce automobiles. It began with bringing in new management and automotive expertise. In May of 1940, the Skylark was completed and ready for delivery to customers. Unfortunately, it had taken many years to produce and most of the orders had been canceled.
Production in 1940, lasting only a couple of months, produced only 319 Skylarks. The company was financially strapped and most of the cars were sold to creditors and distributors. The comapny was forced to close its doors after over 500,000 vehicles were produced.
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1912 Hupmobile Long-Stroke "32" Touring Car
Description:
Hupmobile Long-Stroke "32" Touring Car, $900. F. O. B. Detroit, including·equlpmem of windshield, gas lamps and generator, oil lamps. tools and horn. Three speeds torward and reverse ; centre control: sliding gears. Four cylinder motor. 3 1/2-inch bore and 5t-inch stroke. Bosch magneto. 106-inch wheel-base. 30x3 1/2-inch tires. Color, Standard Hupmobile
blue. Roadster, $900.
Hupmobile
$750-$900
We believe the Hupmobile be, in its class, the best car the world.
Size (8 7/8 X 12 INCHES) (22.5 X 30.5 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 2 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: American Carpenter and Builder
Publishing Date: September, 1912
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00016
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1912 Hupmobile Long-Stroke "32" Touring Car - technical
Description: Hupmobile Long-Stroke "32" Touring Car, $900. F. O. B. Detroit, including equipment of windshield, gas lamps and generator, oil lamps, tools and horn. Three speeds forward and reverse; sliding gears. Four cylinder motor. 3 inch bore and 5 1/2 -inch stroke. Bosch magneto, 1 06-inch wheelbase. 30x3 1/2 -inch tires. Color, Standard blue. Roadster, $900.
The man, the machine and the material-this new plant gets the best out of each
The same machinery that is used in the fine new Hupmobile plant is also used in those plants producing cars of the highest prices. The skilled mechanics engaged in the construction of the Hupmobile are paid the same high rate prevailing in plants producing the costliest cars.
The splendid shop organization has been developed to the same high state of efficiency and held practically intact from the inception of the company-under the engineering leadership of E, A. Nelson, the same man who has been responsible for the success of every previous model.
The materials which enter into every essential Hupmobile operation are precisely as fineprecisely the same, in fact-as those used in cars of the largest and most expensive build. Differences in size and differences in excess luxury, of course ;-differences in engineering ideals, in scrupulous workmanship, in tru stworthy materials-emphatically no. We believe the Hupmobile to be, in its class, the best car in the world.
Size (9 X 11 7/8 INCHES) (22.9 X 30.2 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: American Carpenter and Builder
Publishing Date: September, 1912
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00014
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1912 Standard 20 H. P. Runabout
Description:
Standard 20 H. P. Runabout, $750.
F. o. B. Detroit, with same power plant that took the worldtouring car around the world-4 cylinders, 20 H. P., sliding, gears, Bosch magneto. Equipped with top, windshield , gas lamps and generator, oil lamps, tools and horn. Roadster, 110-inch wheelbase, $850. Long-Stroke "32" Touring Car $900.
Hupmobile $750
We believe the Hupmobile to be, in its class, the best car
in the world. And the most modern machinery; the most skilled mechanics; the very best of materials; and engineering ability of the highest calibre are all enlisted in making it so.
Size (8 7/8 X 12 INCHES) (22.5 X 30.5 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 2 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: American Carpenter and Builder
Publishing Date: July, 1912
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00015
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1919 Hupmobile - The Comfort Car
Description: The Comfort Car
IT is really not strange that manywho formerly drove other cars, should now be numbered among our most enthusiastic Hupmobile owners. The reasons why this is so are per-
fectly plain. It is only necessary to recall that The Comfort Car has the name of being a really extraordinary performer among all types; that its economy and freedom 'from repairs' are likewise quite unusual; and that it is regarded as one of the soundest and most lasting values in the automobile market.
Size (10 5/8 X 14 INCHES) (27 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 2 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: The Saturday Evening Post
Publishing Date: November 1st 1919
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00013
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1922 Hupmobile - Value
Description: Today's Trend Is Proving a Value Everyone Knows
Newspaper Used - Car Columns Confirm the Good You've Always Heard Of Hupmobile
TURN to the used-car columns of the daily press for confirmation of the good
things you've always felt and heard of the Hupmobile. Before us, as we write, are copies of Sunday newspapers from a dozen of the largest cities of the United States. There are not merely columns but pages of used-car announcements, and in every single city the story is the same: The Hupmobile is conspicuous by its absence.
No one Hupmobile model more than another wins this eloquent testimony of high public valuation; but all of them in proportionate measure. The twelve year-old Hupmobile still exerts a sharp demand in all, parts of America, and continues to render yeoman service. Talk to mechanics and repairmen anywhere, and they will tell you all of these facts; and supplement them with comment of their own, much more enthusiastic.
Size (10 7/8 X 14 INCHES) (27.6 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: The Saturday Evening Post
Publishing Date: January 21, 1922
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00012
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1925 Hupmobile Eight Ad1
Women as Well as Men Now Find Real Motoring Delight
THE Hupmobile Eight gets a grip-a delightful grip-on its owners from the start. It is, more than coincidence that much of the highest praise comes from those who have driven cars costing a great deal more to buy-and the Hupmobile invariably gains by the comparison.
E. B. S has always driven cars costlier and heavier than his Hupmobile Eight Sedan. He made the statement to a number of people in a Hupmobile salesroom (all much higher-priced cars) should offer an even trade with him he would not accept. "I have never ridden with such comfort," he says, "nor driven with the ease I am driving now."
Women invariably take to the Eight because it offers them so many distina advantages which they have always wanted and never before found. Mrs. Samuel R much prefers the Hupmobile Eight Sedan to any other car in the family fleet,which includes at least one other car of higher price. Traffic and parking-a woman's motoring bugbears. They're gone for the woman fortunate enough to have this Eight at her disposal.
"In the past I had tried cars with balloon tires," says Mrs. W , "but I just couldn't manage them in traffic and in parking. Butnow, with my Hupmobile Eight! To my great delight, I handle it and park it even more easily than smaller cars we have had." An hour's drive isn't a day's drive in any car; and after you've driven for a day, you know whether a car is easy and you can put a real estimate on its power and performance, Miss Lillian M. E likes the Eight, she says, because it is so easy to handle and so powerful in getting out of traffic.
Size (10 X 13 1/2 INCHES) (25.4 X 34.3 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: The Saturday Evening Post
Publishing Date: September 26, 1925
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00009
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1925 Hupmobile Eight Ad2
Description: IF YOU'VE driven the new Hupmobile Eight, you know there is a difference in, motoring. You know that you have , never experienced anything like it and you wouldn't know where to turn to duplicate it. For you recognize that it is far above and beyond all previous motoring. If you haven't driven this Eight, then by all means drive it and when you do, be prepared to want it as you've never in your life wanted any car.
GET ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR HUPMOBILE DEALER. HE IS A GOOD MAN TO KNOW.
Four body types, not excelled within $ 1000 of their prices in beauty, finish and equipment.
Five-passenger Sedan, $2375; Four-passenger Coupe, $2275; Touring Car and Roadster, $1975. Prices F. O. B. Detroit; tax to be added. EqUipment includes four-wheel brakes, balloon tires, bumpers front and rear, snubbers, transmission lock, automatic windshield cleaner, rear view mirror. Hupmobile four-cylinder cars, in a complete line of popular body types, at prices which make them the outstanding value in their field.
THE HUPMOBILE EIGHT
Size (7 3/8 X 13 3/8 INCHES) (18.7 X 34 CM)
Grading - Very Good (Its Excellent but the paper was cut a little to close to the ending of the font)
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: The Youth's Companion
Publishing Date: June 18, 1925
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00010
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1925 Hupmobile Eight Ad3
Description:
Schedule your run at any speed you like all day long if you like-and make your schedule with an ease and comfort you've never known before. Be off, free and clean, at the traffic signal while the crowd mills and fusses along behind. This magnificent Eight brings so much that is new and finer in driving that within its first six months it became the largest-selling eight of its type in the world.
HUPMOBILE EIGHT
Andrew G. Nystrom, of Hartford, Conn., was a bit skeptical about the Hupmobile Eight, so he drove one for 200 miles or more over mountains, country roads and in heavy traffic. That sold him. He owns one now.
Mrs. Maurice Gardner, of Cleveland, Ohio, was so captivated by the Hupmobile Eight her husband bought for use in his brokerage business that she now drives a Hupmobile Eight of her .own. Both their cars are sedans.
Size (10 X 13 1/8 INCHES) (25.4 X 33.3 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: The Country Gentleman
Publishing Date: September, 1925
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00011
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1929 Hupmobile Century Six and Eight Ad1
Description: Bought now more eagerly than a year ago There is significant meaning for every motor car buyer in the news that the public today is buying the Century Hupmobiles with accelerated eagerness. People can be swept off their feet by striking new design if it is truly beautiful; by fine finish, by luxurious interiors. But only for a little while, if the externals represent the SUM total or even a major part of the car's attractions. With the Century Hupmobiles, the public knew from the first that the dashing new beauty
is really the outer dress for a mechanism as sound and true as a motor car chassis can be built. For the goodness of any Hupmobile the wonders of its performance and the faithfulness of its daily service never need explaining. So the Century Hupmobiles started with a priceless and impregnable advantage. Not only do they hold the special Hupmobile market, but they have finally established themselves in the markets both above and below their own price line. For the Century Hupmobile Six and the Century Hupmobile Eight are more than merely beautiful. They are value without a peer-in their "tailoredmetal" smartness, in their sound quality, and in their super-excellent performance. Fortytwo body and equipment combinations, standard and custom, on each line. Six of the Century list prices:$1800 to $2190, plus delivery charges. Century Eight list prices: $2470 to $2870, plus delivery charges. F. O. B. Windsor.
Hupmobile Century Six and Eight
Size (10 1/4 X 14 INCHES) (26 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: MacLean's Magazine
Publishing Date: December 1, 1928
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00007
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1929 Hupmobile Century Six and Eight Ad2
Description: The new low cost of luxury and distinction. The extremely low prices of these wonderful new Century Hupmobiles is no barrier to their entree into circles of wealth and strict discrimination, where good taste is a supreme criterion of motor car ownership and value. It is good taste to own a Century Six or Eight no matter where you live or what your income. In design these
Century models possess a correct and dignified distinction. In performance they are a complete embodiment of the Twentieth Century's best. 42 body and equipment combinations, standard and custom, on each line. Six of the Century, $1800 to $2190. Century Eight $2470 to $2870. All prices f. o. b. Windsor.
HUPMOBILE 1929 CENTURY S I X AND E I G H T
Size (10 5/8 X 13 7/8 INCHES) (27 X 35.2 CM)
Grading - Very Good (One or two small rips)
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $20.00
Magazine: MacLean's Magazine
Publishing Date: October 1, 1928
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00008
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1929 Hupmobile Six and Eight Ad1
Description: CREATORS OF THE MODE AFTERNOON TAILLEUR BY PREMET CAR BY HUPMOBILE
To the style-conscious woman, the New HUPMOBILE Century car flashes its message of smartness and modernity as swiftly and surely as does the latest gown by the Paris Grande Couture. But to the man who knows HUPMOBILE, there is more than beauty in these New Century cars.
In their mechanical trustworthiness he sees them as the same old, game old HUPMOBILES. As rugged as they are regal. As responsive as they are smart. As elegant in their road-manners as they are in their looks. Her car for its dash; his car for its deeds!
It is this harmony of approval from both sides of the family that has given these New HUPMOBILE Century cars a sales impetus almost startling, even in the fast-moving motor car industry. HUPMOBILE'S new program of expansion has reduced prices on all models. In this new schedule of prices HUPMOBILE excels even itseif in value-giving. See your dealer.
Size (10 3/8 X 14 INCHES) (26.4 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Very Good (Water stain bottom right)
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $20.00
Magazine: MacLean's Magazine
Publishing Date: May 15, 1929
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00003
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1929 Hupmobile Six and Eight Ad2
Description: CREATORS OF THE MODE
SPORTS ENSEMBLE BY REGNY . . . . CAR BY HUPMOBILE
Success is always interesting. And when a long-established business, after 20 years of steady and notable progress, suddenly bounds ahead to an increase of 60% over the previous year, the facts are worth telling and worth reading.
To the motorpostedmmale mind, there never has been any question about HUPMOBILE mechanical quality. For 20 years men have used the word "HUPMOBILE" as a synonym for never-failing motor car integrity. But with the advent of the New Century cars, HUPMOBILE acquired a new recognition.
A nation-wide acceptance as ihe mentor of the motor car mode. Surpassing the richest HUPMOBILE traditions for mechanical excellence, the New Century cars ... 60th the Six and the Eight ... expressed a new and finer art in motor car smartness and beauty. So, today, in the typical American family, he and she are agreed. His car of matchless deed is her car of unrivaled dash.
For the HUPMOBILE has been made to look as good as it is HUPMOBILE'S new program of expansion has reduced prices on all models. In this new schedule of prices HUPMOBILE excels even itself in value-giving, See your dealer.
Size (10 3/8 X 14 INCHES) (26.4 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: MacLean's Magazine
Publishing Date: May 15, 1929
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00004
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1929 Hupmobile Six and Eight Ad3
Description:
CREATORS
SPORTS ENSEMBLE BY REGNY CAR BY HUPMOBILE
Size (10 3/8 X 14 INCHES) (26.4 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Excellent
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: The Saturday Evening Post
Publishing Date: APril 16, 1929
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00005
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1929 Hupmobile Six and Eight Ad4
Description:CREATORS OF THE MODE SPORTS ENSEMBLE BY REGNY . . . . CAR BY HUPMOBILE
Success is always interesting. And when a long-established business, after 20 years of steady and notable progress, suddenly bounds ahead to an increase of 60% over the previous year, the facts are worth telling and worth reading. To the motorposted male mind, there never has been any question about HUPMOBILE mechanical quality.
For 20 years men have used the word "HUPMOBILE" as a synonym for never-failing motor car integrity. But with the advent of the New Century cars, HUPMOBILE acquired a new recognition. A nation-wide acceptance as ihe mentor of the motor car mode. Surpassing the richest HUPMOBILE traditions for mechanical excellence, the New Century cars ... 60th the Six and the Eight ... expressed a new and finer art in motor car smartness and beauty.
So, today, in the typical American family, he and she are agreed. His car of matchless deed is her car of unrivaled dash. For the HUPMOBILE has been made to look as good as it is HUPMOBILE'S new program of expansion has reduced prices on all models. In this new schedule of prices HUPMOBILE excels even itself in value-giving, See your dealer.
Size (10 3/8 X 14 INCHES) (26.4 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Poor (Not appealing, dirty, ripped)
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $5.00
Magazine: The Nor-West Farmer
Publishing Date: June 20, 1929
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00006
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1930 Hupmobile Eight Five-Passenger Sedan, Hupmobile Six Five-Passenger-Sedan, Hupmobile Eight Town Sedan, Hupmobile Six Convertible Cabriolet, and Hupmobile Eight Two-Passenger Convertible Cabriolet
1930 HUPMOBILE EIGHT FIVE-PASSENGER SEDAN Standard equipped $1595 ... Custom equipment at slight extra cost.
1930 HUPMOBILE SIX FIVE-PASSENGER SEDAN Standard equipped $1060 . . . Custom equipment at slight extra cost.
1930 HUPMOBILE EIGHT TOWN SEDAN ... A new body type of pronounced modernity and comfort. Top and rear panels are fabric ... Standard equipped $1715, including
1930 HUPMOBILE SIX CONVERTIBLE CABRIOLET .. _ 2-passenger, with rumble seat. Standard equipped $1075 ... Custom equipment at slight extra cost.
1930 HUPMOBILE EIGHT TWO-PASSENGER CONVERTIBLE CABRIOLET Standard eqmpped $1670. Custom equipment at slight extra cost
Size (18 7/8 X 12 1/2 INCHES) (47.9 X 31.8 CM)
Grading - Poor (Split)(Written on, missing a piece, was badly taken from original magazine)
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $15.00
Publishing Date: unknown
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00001
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1930 Hupmobile Six and Eight
Description:CREATORS OF THE MODE SPORTS ENSEMBLE BY REGNY . . . . CAR BY HUPMOBILE
Success is always interesting. And when a long-established business, after 20 years of steady and notable progress, suddenly bounds ahead to an increase of 60% over the previous year, the facts are worth telling and worth reading. To the motorposted male mind, there never has been any question about HUPMOBILE mechanical quality.
For 20 years men have used the word "HUPMOBILE" as a synonym for never-failing motor car integrity. But with the advent of the New Century cars, HUPMOBILE acquired a new recognition. A nation-wide acceptance as ihe mentor of the motor car mode. Surpassing the richest HUPMOBILE traditions for mechanical excellence, the New Century cars ... 60th the Six and the Eight ... expressed a new and finer art in motor car smartness and beauty.
So, today, in the typical American family, he and she are agreed. His car of matchless deed is her car of unrivaled dash. For the HUPMOBILE has been made to look as good as it is HUPMOBILE'S new program of expansion has reduced prices on all models. In this new schedule of prices HUPMOBILE excels even itself in value-giving, See your dealer.
Size (10 5/8 X 14 INCHES) (27 X 35.6 CM)
Grading - Poor (Not appealing, dirty, ripped)
Availability - 1 in stock
Price - $25.00
Magazine: The Country Gentleman
Publishing Date: May, 1930
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Catalog ID: hupmobile00002
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