This is the eleventh article in a series on the history of automotive nomenclature over 137 years and three continents. Previous parts can be read here:

• Where do car brands come from? Part 1: Shooting
• Automobilwerk: Where do German car brands come from?
• From the “prancing horse” to the “cuore sportivo”: the origin of Italian car brands
• Between “Voiturette” and “Dyane”; The history of automobile manufacturers in France.
• Morris, Aston Martin or Rolls Royce: the Englishmen who gave name to car brands
• Wartburg, Moskvich and the origin of Eastern European car brands
• Hispano-Suiza, Steyr, DAF: Stories of car brands from (another) Europe
• A Journey Between Datsuns and Hinos: The Story of Japanese Car Brands
• A Pony, a Tosca and a Nano are on the same road: these cars come from Korea and India
• From auto rickshaws to luxury SUVs: how China became the world’s largest automaker

Ford

Henry Ford (1863-1947) is often celebrated as a pioneer of the automobile industry, but he was far from the inventor of the automobile: when he built his first car, the Quadricycle, in 1896, ten years had passed since the first automobile. . with the Karl Benz internal combustion engine and the previous year Émile Levassor had traveled 1,200 km, between Paris and Bordeaux, in 48 hours, at the wheel of a Panhard & Levassor. In truth, he was not the first to launch this branch on the Atlantic side: in the year 1899, when he founded his first company, the Detroit Automobile Company, a total of 60 (sixty) automobile manufacturers began activities in the USA.

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