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The '''Henry Ford Company''' was an automobile manufacturer active from 1901 to 1902. Named forafter [[Henry Ford]], it was his second company after the [[Detroit Automobile Company]], which had been founded in 1899. The Henry Ford Company was founded November 1901 from the reorganization of the Detroit Automobile Company.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZLtCQAAQBAJ&dq=henry+ford+first+car+attempt+in+1901&pg=PA605|title=The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising|last1=McDonough|first1=John|last2=Egolf|first2=Karen|date=2015-06-18|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135949068|language=en}}</ref> The company, much like the Detroit Automobile Company, was plagued by disputes between Ford and his investors, and Ford left in 1902. Later that year, the company was reorganized as the [[Cadillac|Cadillac Automobile Company]] under the suggestion of [[Henry M. Leland]]. Cadillac, whose early vehicles were identical in design to those of Ford's later [[Ford Motor Company]] except for the engine, would develop a reputation for precision engineering and was acquired by the nascent [[General Motors]] (GM) in 1909, becoming GM's luxury marque. Ford would eventually find success with the Ford Motor Company, and is considered one of the primary pioneers of the automobile.

The [[Detroit Automobile Company]] was founded in 1899 and made its first vehicle in January 1900.

In March 1902, [[Henry Ford|Ford]] left the company following a dispute with his financial backers, William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen, as Ford was devoting considerable time to the sport of auto racing and his [[Ford 999]] race car. In a final settlement, Ford left with his name and $900; he went on to start the [[Ford Motor Company]] in 1903 at the [[Ford Mack Avenue Plant]].

[[Henry Ford]] founded the [[Ford Motor Company]] in 1903 and began producing the [[Ford Model A (1903–04)|Model A]] that year. The Model A was successful, returning a profit for the Ford Motor Company and securing its financial well-being. Ford expanded with the [[Ford Model B (1904)|Model B]] and [[Ford Model C|Model C]] in 1904, expanding its lineup to seven models by 1907. Ford adopted mass production with a new model, the [[Ford Model T|Model T]], which it introduced in 1908. It proved wildly successful, and by 1914 Ford had produced almost 90 percent of the world's automobiles. By the time it ended production in 1927, more than 15 million had been sold. In 1999, a panel of 126 automotive experts, combined with the votes of the general public, named the Model T as the [[Car of the Century]].<ref name="Car of the Century">{{cite news |last1=Cobb |first1=James G. |title=This Just In: Model T Gets Award |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/24/automobiles/this-just-in-model-t-gets-award.html |access-date=15 March 2021 |location=Section F |page=1 |work=The New York Times |date=December 24, 1999}}</ref>