1902, The Birth of Cadillac
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Henry Leland, known as the master of precision manufacturing, was given management control of a company that had been run by Henry Ford when Ford’s financial backers grew impatient with the pace of Ford’s product development. Leland re-named the Henry Ford Company the Cadillac Automobile Company in honor of the city of Detroit’s founder, French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. In the second photo, the first Cadillac, a 1903 Model A, is shown off on Trombley Avenue in Detroit.
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Correction: The second photo shows the first Cadillac, the single-cylinder, 2-seater runabout. It became known as the "Model A" only in 1904, to set it aside from the "Model B", newly available that year.
Source: Yann Saunders' and Cadillac & LaSalle Club, Inc.'s "Cadillac Database" : www.car-nection.com/yann
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