News: Just a little cadillac history!

[05 GRAND DADDY]

It's been a long haul!
Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company. After Henry Ford departed the Henry Ford Company along with several of his key partners in March 1902, the company was dissolved. 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 a liquidation of the company's assets.

Instead of offering an appraisal, Leland persuaded Murphy and Bowen 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. The company was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701. ...

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 say the first car rolled out of the factory on 17 October.

Don't you just love history.

 

[mtrocket]

Very Interesting!!!

 

[ald42]

It's been a long haul!
Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company. After Henry Ford departed the Henry Ford Company along with several of his key partners in March 1902, the company was dissolved. 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 a liquidation of the company's assets.

Instead of offering an appraisal, Leland persuaded Murphy and Bowen 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. The company was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701. ...

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 say the first car rolled out of the factory on 17 October.

Don't you just love history.

and now we know the story!! thanks Dan Al

 

[Crimson Pearl]

You might also find it interesting that Henry Leland also founded the Lincoln Motor Company in 1917 to build Liberty aircraft engines. Henry Ford was a pacifist and wouldn't do it. After the war, Leland converted to civilian car production and they were known as Lincolns. In 1922, Ford Motor Company purchased the Lincoln Motor Company.

Also, prior to the founding of Cadillac, Leland & Faulconer produced engines for the Dodge brothers.

There is a wonderful book that came out in 1973 that covers the complete history of Cadillac from the very beginning. It was updated in both 1977 and 1979. The name of the book is Cadillac - Standard of the World, the Complete History. It was written by Maurice D. Hendry. It is an Automobile Quarterly Library Series Book. It is very large and heavy! I purchased it back in the early 80's when I had a new Eldorado.

You might be interested to know how Henry decided what type of work a man who came to work for him would do!

 

[05 GRAND DADDY]

And here is some new Cadillac history! And I loved all 14 minutes of this video!
Yes Cadillac back! "GO CADILLAC"

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" 05 GRAND DADDY"

 

[05 GRAND DADDY]

You might also find it interesting that Henry Leland also founded the Lincoln Motor Company in 1917 to build Liberty aircraft engines. Henry Ford was a pacifist and wouldn't do it. After the war, Leland converted to civilian car production and they were known as Lincolns. In 1922, Ford Motor Company purchased the Lincoln Motor Company.

Also, prior to the founding of Cadillac, Leland & Faulconer produced engines for the Dodge brothers.

There is a wonderful book that came out in the late 70's that covers the complete history of Cadillac from the very beginning. I purchased it back in the early 80's when I had a new Eldorado.

You might be interested to know how Henry decided what type of work a man who came to work for him would do!

Yes more good history!

 

[xlrlist01]

They were two-seat horseless carriages powered by a 10 hp (7 kW) single-cylinder engine.

I'm curious about the conversion to 7kW. As I understand it, in 1902 hp ratings were not based on the true power of the engine, but were based on a formula that took into account various parameters with varying complexity. The most simple used the surface area of the pistons, others used maximum rpm, compression ratio and factors like that.

Note that the rating does not include that 'b', for braked hp. A brake means that the engine under test is doing useful work and that is how modern motors are measured. The conversion from 1bhp to W is about 750 (746 IIRC), so 10 bhp is ~7.5 kW. However, the rating is given as 7kW, so did somebody measure the bhp of the 1902 motor, giving a bhp figure of around 9.4bhp?

BTW, the hp ratings of early motors are way out, some apparently low hp motors had much, much greater bhps. Tax played a part, with the tax levied in some jurisdictions on the hp (surface area of the pistons) leading to very long stroke motors fitted with superchargers.

Adding more confusion to the mix (for any who care), a jet plane at the start of the runway with the engines at maximum throttle but not moving is doing no useful work at all, ie zero power and is 100% inefficient (ignoring the generators it is running for own consumption - you like those reading lamps?). This makes the calculation of true efficiencies more complex than they at first appear and is why jets are rated by thrust, not bhp.

2c worth.