Henry Leland founded the two premier American luxury automotive marques, Cadillac and Lincoln.
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10 Facts About Henry Leland
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Henry Leland subsequently worked in the firearms industry, including at Colt.
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Henry Leland invented the electric barber clippers, and for a short time produced a unique toy train, the Leland-Detroit Monorail.
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Henry Leland created the Cadillac automobile, later bought out by General Motors.
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Henry Leland completed the appraisal, but he advised Murphy and his partners that they were making a mistake to liquidate, and suggested they instead reorganize, building a new car powered by a single-cylinder engine Henry Leland had originally developed for Oldsmobile.
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At Cadillac, Henry Leland applied many modern manufacturing principles to the fledgling automotive industry, including the use of interchangeable parts.
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Henry Leland prodded Kettering to design a workable electric starter after a Cadillac engineer was hit in the head and killed by a starting crank when the engine backfired.
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Henry Leland left General Motors in a dispute with company founder William C Durant over producing materiel during World War I Cadillac had been asked to build Liberty aircraft engines but Durant was a pacifist.
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Henry Leland had no connection to the Lincoln Motor Car Works, a marque sold by Sears-Roebuck from 1905 to 1915.
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Henry Leland was an important leader, with his base in the Detroit Citizens League.
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