Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Henry M. Leland

Index Henry M. Leland

Henry Martyn Leland (February 16, 1843 – March 26, 1932) was an American machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur. [1]

37 relations: Alfred P. Sloan, Ancestry.com, Automotive industry, Barton, Vermont, Brand, Brown & Sharpe, Cadillac, Charles F. Kettering, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Danville, Vermont, Detroit, Dewar Trophy, Ernest G. Liebold, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Henry Ford Company, Interchangeable parts, Liberty L-12, Lincoln Motor Car Works, Lincoln Motor Company, Lincoln Motor Company Plant, Manufacturing, Massachusetts, Materiel, Metrology, Millbury, Massachusetts, Oldsmobile, Progressive Era, Providence, Rhode Island, Ransom E. Olds, Sears, Tool and die maker, United States, Vermont, William C. Durant, Woodmere Cemetery, World War I.

Alfred P. Sloan

Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (May 23, 1875–February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Alfred P. Sloan · See more »

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Ancestry.com · See more »

Automotive industry

The automotive industry is a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles, some of them are called automakers.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Automotive industry · See more »

Barton, Vermont

Barton is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Barton, Vermont · See more »

Brand

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Brand · See more »

Brown & Sharpe

Brown & Sharpe is a division of Hexagon AB, a Swedish multinational corporation focused mainly on metrological tools and technology.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Brown & Sharpe · See more »

Cadillac

Cadillac, formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a division of the U.S.-based General Motors (GM) that markets luxury vehicles worldwide.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Cadillac · See more »

Charles F. Kettering

Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958) sometimes known as Charles "Boss" Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Charles F. Kettering · See more »

Colt's Manufacturing Company

Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by Samuel Colt.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Colt's Manufacturing Company · See more »

Danville, Vermont

Danville is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Danville, Vermont · See more »

Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Detroit · See more »

Dewar Trophy

The Dewar Trophy was a cup donated in the early years of the twentieth century by Sir Thomas R. Dewar, M.P. a member of parliament of the United Kingdom (UK), to be awarded each year by the Royal Automobile Club (R. A.C.) of the United Kingdom "to the motor car which should successfully complete the most meritorious performance or test furthering the interests and advancement of the industry".

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Dewar Trophy · See more »

Ernest G. Liebold

Ernest G. Liebold (March 16, 1884 – March 4, 1956) was the business representative and personal secretary of Henry Ford.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Ernest G. Liebold · See more »

Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Ford Motor Company · See more »

General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and General Motors · See more »

Henry Ford Company

The Henry Ford Company was the second company for Henry Ford, founded November, 1901.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Henry Ford Company · See more »

Interchangeable parts

Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Interchangeable parts · See more »

Liberty L-12

The Liberty L-12 was an American 27-litre (1,649 cubic inch) water-cooled 45° V-12 aircraft engine of designed for a high power-to-weight ratio and ease of mass production.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Liberty L-12 · See more »

Lincoln Motor Car Works

Lincoln Motor Car Works was an automobile company in Chicago, Illinois.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Lincoln Motor Car Works · See more »

Lincoln Motor Company

Lincoln, formally the Lincoln Motor Company, is a luxury vehicle brand of the American manufacturer Ford Motor Company.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Lincoln Motor Company · See more »

Lincoln Motor Company Plant

The Lincoln Motor Company Plant was an automotive plant at 6200 West Warren Avenue (at Livernois) in Detroit, Michigan, later known as the Detroit Edison Warren Service Center.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Lincoln Motor Company Plant · See more »

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Manufacturing · See more »

Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Massachusetts · See more »

Materiel

Materiel, more commonly matériel in US English and also listed as the only spelling in some UK dictionaries (both pronounced, from French matériel meaning equipment or hardware), refers to military technology and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Materiel · See more »

Metrology

Metrology is the science of measurement.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Metrology · See more »

Millbury, Massachusetts

Millbury is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Millbury, Massachusetts · See more »

Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile was a brand of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Oldsmobile · See more »

Progressive Era

The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Progressive Era · See more »

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Providence, Rhode Island · See more »

Ransom E. Olds

Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Ransom E. Olds · See more »

Sears

Sears, Roebuck and Company, colloquially known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, reincorporated (a formality for a history-making consumer sector initial public offering) by Richard Sears and new partner Julius Rosenwald in 1906.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Sears · See more »

Tool and die maker

Tool and die makers are a class of machinists in the manufacturing industries who make jigs, fixtures, dies, molds, machine tools, cutting tools, gauges, and other tools used in manufacturing processes.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Tool and die maker · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and United States · See more »

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Vermont · See more »

William C. Durant

William Crapo "Billy" Durant (December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars; and the co-founder of General Motors with Frederic L. Smith, and of Chevrolet with Louis Chevrolet.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and William C. Durant · See more »

Woodmere Cemetery

Woodmere Cemetery is at West Fort Street and Woodmere Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, in the neighborhood of Springwells Village in what was originally the township of Springwells.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and Woodmere Cemetery · See more »

World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

New!!: Henry M. Leland and World War I · See more »

Redirects here:

Henry Leland, Henry Martyn Leland.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Leland

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »