1941 Graham Hollywood Custom

The three Graham brothers began their working career for a glass company for which Joseph Graham invented an improved method to blow glass bottles. Ray Graham then invented a method to convert Ford Model T's into one-ton trucks. They soon entered into an agreement with Dodge to build trucks using Dodge drivetrains which were sold by Dodge dealers. They sold their Dodge stock in April of 1926 and started their own automobile company.

The Hollywood was built using dies from the Cord 810/812. The dies had been bought by Huppmobile but they had difficulties getting their car into production. A joint venture between the two companies resulted in the Graham Hollywood and Huppmobile Skylark. The Hollywood did not have the hidden headlights or front-wheel drive of the Cord. It did feature a supercharged 125 horsepower, six-cylinder Graham-designed engine built by Continental, much as the Cord featured a supercharged Continental engine.

In September of 1940, the Graham-Paige Company switched production to military items in support of the World War II effort. After the war, in 1946, the company resumed the production of automobiles. Their new car, the Frazer, was named in honor of Joseph Washington Frazer, the president of the Graham-Paige Company.

In 1945, Henry J. Kaiser and Frazer became the owners of the Graham-Paige assets and became known as the Kaiser-Frazer. Graham's facilities were sold to the Chrysler Corporation.

Graham-Paige went into the real estate building. In 1962 the company changed its name to the Madison Square Garden Corporation.

In 1941 the Graham Company offered two models though they were nearly identical. The models were the Hollywood Custom Supercharged and the Custom Hollywood. Both rode on a 115-inch wheelbase and were offered as a four-door sedan. Both were powered by a 217.8 cubic-inch six-cylinder engine and both had a bore of 3.25 inches and a stroke of 4.38 inches. The differences were obvious due to the description of the model, a supercharger. Without the supercharger, the horsepower was 95 but with it, horsepower rose to 124.