#128 Henry Leland (Cadillac)

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William Durant. Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan. In comparing Leland with Durant and Ford, it should be pointed out that Leland's contribution to the development of the motor car was the establishment of high standards of manufacturing. Ford, of course. through the moving assembly line also develop standards, but for the manufacturer of a cheap car.

He himself recognized Leland's great contribution. Durant as the founder of General Motors was a promoter. But made contributions as the head of an organization offering a variety of cars and the establishment of company supplying parts. Sloane reorganized General Motors on a sounder basis and established its highly successful system of financial controls. The Dodge brothers would be included by some experts as a major force in the early automobile industry, and in the nineteen twenties Walter P. Chrysler took a prominent place in the industry.

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