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Leland, Henry M. Henry Martyn Leland, founder of Cadillac and Lincoln car companies, brought precision engineering to the automobile business. Born in Barton, Vermont in 1843, he gained machine knowledge working with farm equipment and learned the firearms trade working at Colt before the Civil War. Working at Brown and Sharpe in Rhode Island ...
Henry M. Leland. Henry Martin Leland, född den 16 februari 1843 i Barton, Vermont, död 26 mars 1932 i Detroit, Michigan, amerikansk ingenjör, entreprenör och uppfinnare. Leland började med högprecisionstillverkning inom vapenindustrin, där bra toleranser krävdes, innan han så tidigt som 1870 började tillverka förbränningsmotorer i ...
Henry Martyn Leland (16 de febrero de 1843 - 26 de marzo de 1932) fue un maquinista, inventor, ingeniero y empresario automotriz estadounidense. Fundó las dos principales marcas automotrices de lujo estadounidenses, Cadillac y Lincoln. (es) dbo:birthPlace: dbpedia-es:Estados_Unidos; dbpedia-es:Vermont; dbo:child: dbpedia-es:Henry_M._Leland ...
23 de sept. de 2018 · In This Article. He was a rural kid from the Green Mountains of Vermont, a youngster coming up who enjoyed working with his hands, especially when those hands were controlling machine tools. He came into the auto industry very late in his lifetime, but in that short span of years, Henry Martyn Leland founded two of the United States' most ...
Henry Martyn Leland, né le 16 février 1843 à Danville, Vermont 1 et mort le 26 mars 1932 à Détroit, Michigan, est un industriel américain, fabricant de machines spéciales puis de moteurs pour l' automobile. Partisan de la qualité totale, il met au point le concept de l'interchangeabilité des pièces dans la construction automobile.
1932. Henry Leland approached his boss at Brown & Sharpe with a preposterous proposal: He planned to quit his job and move west to begin a business, and he wanted to take one of his best co-workers with him. To start his new business he would need to borrow $2,000, the current equivalent of $50,000; he wondered: Would the boss front him the ...
2.3K. Vermonter Henry Martyn Leland created two of the world’s best-selling luxury car brands – the Cadillac and the Lincoln. While New England had other players in the early development of the automobile, Leland was the most successful and most underappreciated.. The youngest child from a family of eight in Barton, Vt., Leland focused his whole professional life on precision manufacturing.
