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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, is shown off on Trombley Avenue in Detroit.