Editing Nissan (section)

===American market and expansion===
[[File:Petersen Automotive Museum PA140052 (45229770615).jpg|thumb|The Graham-Paige based Nissan Model 70 sedan]]

DAT had inherited [[Kubota Corporation|Kubota]]'s chief designer, American engineer [[William Gorham (engineer)|William R. Gorham]]. This, along with Aikawa's 1908 visit to Detroit, was to greatly affect Nissan's future.<ref name="NISSANCORPORATEHISTORY"/><ref name="NISSANHISTORY">{{cite web |url=http://www.nissan-global.com/GCC/Japan/History/history/index-e.html |title=A Brief History of Nissan Motor Company |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509041413/http://www.nissan-global.com/GCC/Japan/History/history/index-e.html |archive-date=9 May 2017 |work=Nissan corporate website |access-date=29 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Although it had always been Aikawa's intention to use cutting-edge auto making technology from America, it was Gorham that carried out the plan. Most of the machinery and processes originally came from the United States. When Nissan started to assemble larger vehicles under the "Nissan" brand in 1937, much of the design plans and plant facilities were supplied by the [[Graham-Paige]] Company.<ref name="Odin, L.C. 1939"/> Nissan also had a Graham license under which passenger cars, buses, and trucks were made.<ref name="NISSANHISTORY"/>

In his 1986 book ''[[The Reckoning (1986 book)|The Reckoning]]'', [[David Halberstam]] states "In terms of technology, Gorham was the founder of the Nissan Motor Company" and that "young Nissan engineers who had never met him spoke of him as a god and could describe in detail his years at the company and his many inventions."<ref name=Halberstam>{{cite book|last1=Halberstam|first1=David|title=The Reckoning|url=https://archive.org/details/reckoning00halbrich|url-access=registration|date=1986|publisher=William Morrow & Co|isbn=0688048382|page=[https://archive.org/details/reckoning00halbrich/page/393 393]}}</ref>