The Cadillac (Standard of the World) on This Day in History

This Day In History: The Cadillac Motor Company was founded on this day in 1902. 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, re-purposing the Henry Ford Company factory at Cass Street and Amsterdam Avenue. It was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who had founded Detroit in 1701. The Cadillac crest is based on his coat of arms.

Leland actually apprenticed under gun-maker Samuel Colt.

Cadillac had the first U.S. car to win the Royal Automobile Club of the United Kingdom'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".

In 1909, Cadillac was purchased by General Motors. 

Cadillac was the first manufacturer to mass-produce cars with enclosed cabins, and it was the first car equipped with electric lights. Cadillac was the first to mass produce V8 engines. Cadillac was also the first to put a V16 engine in a car.

The 1957 Eldorado Brougham model came with a minibar right in the glove box with magnetic whisky glasses. Probably not their greatest idea. 

Al Capone had a bulletproof 1928 Cadillac that was impounded by the government and later used by President Roosevelt. Capone also owned one of the Cadillacs used in The Godfather and The Untouchables.

The Presidential Cadillac is heavily armored and built to withstand attacks. It has five-inch thick glass windows, eight-inch thick doors and a body constructed with titanium and ceramics and it has a bombproof plate around the underside.

The Cadillac Escalade used to be one of the most stolen cars until the company started adding more robust anti-theft features in 2015.

There is an interesting store behind Mary Kay's Pink Cadillac. Mary Kay Ash went to a Lincoln dealership in the late 1960s and asked them to create a custom car to help promote her Mary Kay Cosmetics. She was told "Little lady, go home and get your husband. And when you come back, we’ll get you into that Lincoln.” So, she went to a Cadillac dealer and the pink Cadillac was born, and she would reward her top sellers with these cars.

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