Henry M. Leland

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I have to introduce you to a fellow by the name of Henry Leland.

He was a machinist, uh, raised up in Vermont, came to Detroit, worked for a machine shop and, uh, He took over the second of Ford's three companies when they pushed Henry Ford out right around 1902.

The company that Leland took over was end up called Cadillac.

And it was the only auto company that Billy Durant in building General Motors had to pay cash for four and a half million dollars in 1911.

The reason why that's important, Henry Leland would go back again and build a quality car, build a second company.

That motor car company was called Lincoln, and he was building high-scale, upscale cars.

Then came the recession of 1921, and they got caught.

Not a lot of those.

Founded by a, a man named Henry Leland, who was an extraordinary force in the automotive industry.

1903 is also the year that Ford founded his, his car company.

But he, right at the outset, took a completely different approach from almost all the other car manufacturers.

And he founded the auto company, which, of course, promptly failed.

Then he founded another one, which got taken over by Henry Leland and turned into Cadillac.

But number three was a charm with Ford Motor Company.

But talking about Ford and racing, everything that Ford has done, racing has just been the DNA.