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Cadillac Category: Vehicle Marque Official Site: Cadillac.com Wikipedia: Cadillac Description: General Motors' luxury brand. Founded as the independent company Cadillac Automobile Company on 22 August 1902, it would become part of GM in 1909. It was named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the French explorer who founded Detroit, Michigan. Subtopics: Cultural References Vehicle Models: Allanté, ATS, Aurora, Calais, Catera, Ciel, Cien, Cimarron, Coupe deVille, CT6, CTS, Cyclone, deVille, DTS, Eldorado, Elmiraj, Escalade, Fleetwood, Imaj, Model 30, Model A, Model C, Model D, Model K, Northstar LMP, Sedan deVille, Series 10, Series 341, Series 353, Series 40, Series 452, Series 50, Series 60, Series 61, Series 62, Series 75, Series 90, Seville, Sixteen, Solitaire, SRX, STS, Type 53, V-16, V-63, Vizon, Voyage, XLR, XT4, and XTS Page Sections: Topics · History · Bibliography · Documents · Multimedia · Images · Article Index |
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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Cadillac page on 18 June 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Cadillac, formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a division of U.S.-based General Motors (GM) that markets luxury vehicles worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States, Canada, and China, but Cadillac-branded vehicles are distributed in 34 additional markets worldwide. Historically, Cadillac automobiles have always held a place at the top of the luxury field within the United States. In 2014, Cadillac's U.S. sales were 170,750 vehicles.
Cadillac is among the oldest automobile brands in the world, second in America only to fellow GM marque Buick. The firm was founded from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company in 1902, almost nine years before Chevrolet. It was named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded Detroit, Michigan. The Cadillac crest is based on his coat of arms.
By the time General Motors purchased the company in 1909, Cadillac had already established itself as one of America's premier luxury carmakers. The complete interchangeability of its precision parts had allowed it to lay the foundation for the modern mass production of automobiles. It was at the forefront of technological advances, introducing full electrical systems, the clashless manual transmission and the steel roof. The brand developed three engines, with its V8 setting the standard for the American automotive industry.
Cadillac was the first American car to win the Royal Automobile Club of England's Dewar Trophy by successfully demonstrating the interchangeability of its component parts during a reliability test in 1908; this spawned the firm's slogan "Standard of the World". It won the trophy again in 1912 for incorporating electric starting and lighting in a production automobile.
Founding
Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company. After a dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company along with several of his key partners in March 1902. Ford's financial backers William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and equipment in preparation for liquidating the company's assets. Instead, Leland persuaded the pair to continue manufacturing automobiles using Leland's proven single-cylinder engine. A new company called the Cadillac Automobile Company was established on 22 August 1902. It was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.
First automobiles
Cadillac's first automobiles, the Runabout and Tonneau, were completed in October 1902. They were two-seat horseless carriages powered by a 10 hp (7 kW) single-cylinder engine. They were practically identical to the 1903 Ford Model A. Many sources state that the first car rolled out of the factory on 17 October; in the book Henry Leland – Master of Precision, the date is 20 October; another reliable source shows car number three to have been built on 16 October. Cadillac displayed the new vehicles at the New York Auto Show in January 1903, where the vehicles impressed the crowds enough to gather over 2,000 firm orders. Cadillac's biggest selling point was precision manufacturing, and therefore, reliability; a Cadillac was simply a better-made vehicle than its competitors.
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Cadillac 1948-1964 Photo Album | Year & Type: 1998 Nonfiction Editor: Mark A. Patrick Publisher: Iconografix Dimensions: 10.25" x 8.5" softcover Content: 110 pages w/black & white photos ISBN: 1-882256-83-2 Topic: Cadillac Availability: Reference Desk |
Standard Catalog of Cadillac 1903-2005, 3rd Edition | Year & Type: 2005 Nonfiction Author: John Gunnell Publisher: KP Books Dimensions: 8.375" x 10.875" softcover Content: 400 pages w/color photos ISBN: 0-87349-289-7 Topic: Cadillac Availability: Reference Desk |
Cadillac Classics | Year & Type: 2007 Nonfiction Authors: Auto Editors of Consumer Guide Publisher: Publications International, Ltd. Dimensions: 9.5" x 7.5" hardcover Content: 128 pages w/color photos ISBN: 978-1-4127-1534-8 Topic: Cadillac Availability: Reference Desk |
1975 Cadillac Shop Manual Supplement | Year & Type: 1975 Service Manual Publisher: General Motors Corporation Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" softcover Content: 200+ pages w/black & white illustrations Topic: Cadillac Availability: Reference Desk |
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| 1919 | Cadillac Participation in the World War An Expression of Appreciation to Cadillac Men for their Loyal Services in a Great Emergency and a Historical Account of Cadillac Accomplishments Cadillac Motor Car Company | Topic Page - 77 pages |
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