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Lincoln Motor Company. Lincoln Automobile Emblem, circa 1922 / THF150927. Lincoln Motor Company was formed in 1917 by father and son Henry Leland and Wilfred Leland. The elder Leland named it for the first president for whom he voted. Lincoln built airplane engines during World War I, then shifted to production of luxury automobiles.
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Lincoln Motor Company was born in 1917 out of Henry Leland's patriotic desire to build airplane engines for the allied forces in World War I. After the armistice, Leland and his son Wilfred refashioned Lincoln into a high-end automaker. But a postwar recession forced the Lelands to sell to another father-son duo, Henry and Edsel Ford. Over the next 20 years, Lincoln grew into one of America's ...
The 400-horsepower Liberty V-12 engine powered military aircraft during World War I. When pacifist and General Motors head Billy Durant wouldn't let Cadillac build the engines, Cadillac founder Henry Leland quit in protest, formed Lincoln Motor Company, and manufactured 6,500 of them. Packard, Ford, Marmon, and -- after Durant relented -- Buick and Cadillac also built Liberty engines.
Automobiles, like other everyday objects, underwent streamlining in the 1930s. The 1936 Lincoln Zephyr joined aerodynamic styling with attractiveness. Its flowing teardrop shape suggests motion. Its V-shaped grille slices the air. Headlights blend smoothly into the front fenders. Rear fenders hug the body and fender skirts hide the rear wheels. Even the taillights are streamlined. The Zephyr ...
Ford Motor Company purchased Lincoln Motor Company in 1922, after the struggling Lincoln was placed in receivership. Lincoln founders Henry Leland and Wilfred Leland hoped Ford would compensate Lincoln's original stockholders after the sale, and they later insisted there was an oral agreement to that effect. Four years of litigation failed to resolve the matter to the Lelands' satisfaction.
Summary. Ford Motor Company bought Lincoln Motor Company in February 1922, after Lincoln was forced into receivership by heavy expenditures and weak sales in the post-World War I recession. The $8 million deal saved Lincoln from closing, and Lincoln's luxury cars expanded Ford's products beyond the economical Model T.
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Henry Ford and Henry Leland were photographed together when Ford purchased Leland's Lincoln Motor Company on February 4, 1922. It wasn't the first time their professional paths crossed. In 1902, after Ford left the Henry Ford Company, Leland reorganized that firm as Cadillac Automobile Company. Leland sold Cadillac to General Motors in 1909, and he founded Lincoln in 1917.
During World War I, American women stepped into jobs traditionally held by men. Women were an important part of the wartime workforce at Lincoln Motor Company. Henry Leland formed Lincoln in 1917 to manufacture Liberty aircraft engines for the Allied Powers. Lincoln employees built 6,500 engines during the war. Packard, Ford, Marmon, Buick, and Cadillac produced Liberty engines too.
