Cadillac Roots Came from Henry Ford
My late Uncle Frank remembered and told me the story of how shareholders of the original Ford Motor Company decided to take the company away from the control of Henry Ford. The resulting creation was Cadillac, which was part of the birth of GM.
I have been in the automotive industry for over thirty years; I have been an automotive aficionado all my life. The information I know about the U.S. and foreign automobile industries is broad and deep.
In 1970, I visited Detroit and my uncle explained everything from the cities change of name to early horseless carriages built by J. Daimler in Germany. I understood the automobile was not invented in the U.S., but mass production was. I remember standing beside the 1903 curved dash Oldsmobile.
The truth of the creation of GM is that its most innovative division came from the roots of the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford created the assembly line for durable goods as a development of Winchester arms developing interchangeable parts. His friendships with authors Napoleon Hill, Harvey Firestone, and several journalists networked to his ability to obtain the capital to create a large industry.
He proved the world could believe in the new industry that created the atmosphere in which GM was created. Give him some credit when you talk history on your website.
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