1906 Cadillac Victoria Touring Model M
edited by David Barth, 10 January 2009.
Courtesy The Forney Museum of Transportation at 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver,
Colorado. Photos were taken in January 2009.
William Murphy and Lemuel W. Bowen, Ford's financial backers, called Henry Marten Leland, manufacture of precision
automotive engines, to consult on the Ford automobile plant and equipment. During his appraisal in August 1902, Leland
showed Ford that his one-cylinder engine produced 23 percent more hp and was more reliable than competitive
engines.
The result was the creation of the Cadillac Automobile Company, named after Le Sieur Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac,
the French explorer who discovered Detroit in the early eighteenth century.
The 1906 Model M can be identified by the long muffler and severe cant to the nose of the front fenders.
