Ford Leaves and Cadillac is Found. autosmithcar.com

With the help of C. Harold Wills, Ford designed, built, and successfully raced a 26-horsepower automobile in October 1901. With this success, Murphy and other stockholders in the Detroit Automobile Company formed the Henry Ford Company on November 30, 1901, with Ford as chief engineer.^[11] In 1902, Murphy brought in Henry M. Leland as a consultant; Ford, in response, left the company bearing his name. With Ford gone, Murphy renamed the company the Cadillac Automobile Company.^[11]

I find it funny how Cadillac is formed from Ford and then you see Lincoln soon become part of Ford in almost a similar fashion.  If you look at the industry, everyone is somewhat tied together especially when WW2 broke out. 
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