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Cadillac had its beginnings by rising from the ashes of the Henry Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford had left the company and taken his key partners with him. With Ford's departure, the financial backers of the enterprise had every intention of scraping the company and selling off all of its assets. Engineer Henry Leland was brought in to appraise the equipment and the plant prior to sale. Instead, he convinced both William Murphy and Lemuel Brown to continue manufacturing automobiles using the one cylinder engine that Leland had invented. Because of Ford's departure, the company needed a new name. Cadillac was chosen for the 17th century explorer, Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, which founded Detroit, Michigan.

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