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Bookmark or Share- Lincoln -- Birth and Rebirth - The Henry FordLincoln 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 ...
- Lincoln Motor Company - The Henry FordLincoln Motor Company was formed in 1917 by father and son Henry Leland and Wilfred Leland. Lincoln built airplane engines during World War I, then shifted to production of luxury automobiles. Faced with a difficult economy and disappointing sales, the company entered receivership. Ford Motor Company purchased Lincoln Motor Company in 1922.
- Articles of Association of Lincoln Motor Company, March 29, 1922Challenged by a difficult economy and disappointing sales, Lincoln Motor Company entered receivership in November 1921. Ford Motor Company purchased Lincoln for $8 million in February 1922. These articles of association reflected the new ownership. They were signed by Lincoln founders Henry Leland and Wilfred Leland, and by Edsel Ford -- who also signed on behalf of his father, Henry Ford.
- Liberty V-12 Model A Airplane Engine, Lincoln Motor Company, circa 1917The 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.
- Henry Ford and Henry Leland at the Acquisition of Lincoln Motor Co. by ...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.
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