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Henry Ford Company

The Henry Ford Company was an automobile manufacturer
active from 1901 to 1902. Named for Henry Ford, it was his Henry Ford Company
second company after the Detroit Automobile Company, which
had been founded in 1899. The Henry Ford Company was
founded November 1901 from the reorganization of the Detroit
Automobile Company.[1] The company, much like the Detroit
Automobile Company, was plagued by disputes between Ford and
his investors, and Ford left in 1902. Later that year, the company
was reorganized as the Cadillac Automobile Company under the
suggestion of Henry M. Leland. Cadillac, whose early vehicles
were identical in design to those of Ford's later Ford Motor
Company except for the engine, would develop a reputation for
precision engineering and was acquired by the nascent General
Motors (GM) in 1909, becoming GM's luxury marque. Ford
would eventually find success with the Ford Motor Company, and
is considered one of the primary pioneers of the automobile. Detroit Assembly Plant
Predecessor Detroit Automobile
Company
Contents Founded November 3, 1901
Defunct August 22, 1902
Background
Fate Reorganized
Collapse and reorganization
Successor Cadillac
Subsequent history
Automobile
Cadillac
Company
Ford Ford Motor
External sources Company

See also Headquarters Detroit, Michigan

References
Works cited

Background
The Detroit Automobile Company was founded in 1899 and made its first vehicle in January 1900.

Collapse and reorganization

In March 1902, Ford left the company following a dispute with his financial backers, William Murphy and
Lemuel Bowen, as Ford was devoting considerable time to the sport of auto racing and his Ford 999 race
car. In a final settlement, Ford left with his name and $900; he went on to start the Ford Motor Company in
1903 at the Ford Mack Avenue Plant.
In August 1902, Henry M. Leland, a local manufacturer of precision gears and engines, was brought in by
the investors to appraise the plant and equipment prior to selling them. Instead, Leland persuaded them to
continue in the automobile business, showing them an engine he had designed a year earlier for Olds Motor
Works that was not adopted due to a fire at the latter's premises. The Henry Ford Company reorganized that
year as the Cadillac Automobile Company, named in honor of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the founder
of Detroit.[2]

Subsequent history

Cadillac

Cadillac's first car, the Cadillac Runabout and Tonneau, was completed on October 17, 1902, the 10
horsepower (7.5 kW) Cadillac. Based on Henry Ford's design (except for the engine, designed by Leland
& Faulconer), it was practically identical to the 1903 Ford Model A.

Located in Detroit at 450 Amsterdam Street, at the intersection of Cass Avenue and Amsterdam Street, the
original manufacturing plant was designed by architectural firm George C. Mason & Son, and remained in
operation under Cadillac until 1921, when the Detroit Assembly factory was built at Clark Street. The
factory after Leland made some improvements, was 275,000 square feet, with its own forge, a machine
shop, and a foundry for both iron and brass. The factory ran 24 hours a day, producing 40 Cadillacs in that
time period. The original location is approximately 2 miles east of the current Detroit/Hamtramck
Assembly, where Cadillacs are currently built. It is approximately half a mile southwest from Cadillac
Place, GM's headquarters from 1922 until 2001, when GM moved to the GM Renaissance Center next to
the Detroit River.

Ford

Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 and began producing the Model A that year. The
Model A was successful, returning a profit for the Ford Motor Company and securing its financial well-
being. Ford expanded with the Model B and Model C in 1904, expanding its lineup to seven models by
1907. Ford adopted mass production with a new model, the Model T, which it introduced in 1908. It
proved wildly successful, and by 1914 Ford had produced almost 90 percent of the world's automobiles.
By the time it ended production in 1927, more than 15 million had been sold. In 1999, a panel of 126
automotive experts, combined with the votes of the general public, named the Model T as the Car of the
Century.[3]

External sources
Henry Ford Company Amsterdam Avenue factory (https://archive.today/20171012223132/htt
p://detroit1701.org/CadillacAmsterdam.html)
Henry Ford Company (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/henry-ford-leaves-edison-to
-start-automobile-company)
Henry Ford's first car company (http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/henry-fords-fi
rst-car-firm-founded)

See also
List of automobile manufacturers
References
1. McDonough, John; Egolf, Karen (June 18, 2015). The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of
Advertising (https://books.google.com/books?id=HZLtCQAAQBAJ&dq=henry+ford+first+car
+attempt+in+1901&pg=PA605). Routledge. ISBN 9781135949068.
2. Kimes, p. 188
3. Cobb, James G. (December 24, 1999). "This Just In: Model T Gets Award" (https://www.nyti
mes.com/1999/12/24/automobiles/this-just-in-model-t-gets-award.html). The New York
Times. Section F. p. 1. Retrieved March 15, 2021.

Works cited
Kimes, Beverly Rae (1989). Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805–1942 (https://archive.
org/details/standardcatalogo0000kime/). Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications.
ISBN 9780873410458.

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