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Henry M. Leland was an engineer at Henry Ford Company when Henry Ford left in 1902. He was influential in Ford's departure and in the decision not to liquidate the company, and he instead recreated the company as Cadillac.

As president of Cadillac, Leland pioneered many modern manufacturing processes, including the use of interchangeable, replaceable parts that could be manufactured by machine shops. This allowed automobiles to be repaired by independent garages and owners.

Leland left Cadillac, which was by then a division of General Motors, in 1917 and formed the Lincoln Motor Company to build Liberty aircraft engines. After the war, the company's factories were retooled to manufacture luxury automobiles.

In 1922 Lincoln was bought out by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company, possibly as revenge for Ford's departure from the Henry Ford Company in 1902.

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