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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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An Engineer's Idle Hands

Posted October 13, 2009 11:10 AM by dstrohl

Henry Leland, a native Vermonter, just couldn't leave well enough alone. After founding the Cadillac Car Company in 1902 and then selling it to General Motors in 1909, Leland began the Lincoln Motor Company in 1917 which built Liberty engines for U.S. military planes. Once the first world war ended, he again started producing high-end and meticulously crafted automobiles under the Lincoln name until the company was bought by Ford in 1922. Both makes continue to be the flagship for quality with their current manufacturers.

Not happy with his success at Cadillac and Lincoln, however, Henry Leland dove headlong into producing one of the most reliable, durable and sought-after electric trains of the 20th Century, the Leland-Detroit Mono 2000 elevated trolley.

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