In the six years Ford remained with the Detroit Automobile Company it put out only two or three cars. In 1901 Ford severed his connection with the company, which shortly became the Cadillac Automobile Company, and is now the Cadillac Motor Car Company. The Cadillac has had a successful career, and is one of the cars of which a particularly large number has been sold. Leaving the Detroit Automobile Company, Ford started a machine shop of his own, and in 1902 produced a car with a 90-inch wheel base, and which is now regarded as standard gauge, using the two cylinders, 4 × 4, and a double opposed engine. After much difficulty he got money from half a dozen persons and organized the Ford Motor Company with a capital of $100,000. At first he owned only 25-1/2 per cent of the stock, but later he borrowed $175,000 and bought 25-1/2 per cent more, and still later by paying 700 per cent of its face value, secured 7-1/2 per cent more, which makes his holding in the company at this time 58-1/2 per cent of the stock. The first Ford car to be a commercial success was put out in 1903, and the record of production of Ford cars to date is as follows: Year. No. Cars. 1904 1,708 1905 1,695 1906 1,599 1907 8,423 1908 6,398 1909 10,607 1910 18,664 1911 34,528 1912 78,440 1913 168,220 1914 248,307 1915 308,213 1916 533,921 In 1916 the Ford production was over one-sixth of the 3,000,000 cars in use in the United States. In that year he produced nearly one-third of all the passenger cars made in that year. Ford’s car was a small, low priced car from the start. Haynes’ was a larger and higher priced car. Winton’s was likewise a large and more expensive car. A RAIN OF AUTOMOBILE MAKERS. The year of the Spanish-American war—1898—saw the beginning of a veritable rain of automobile manufacturers in the United States. In that year the Stanley, Stearns, Thomas, Matheson, Winton, and the Waverley Company entered the field. In 1899, there appeared the Locomobile Company, Olds, Baker-Electric and Pierce-Racine (later absorbed by J. I. Case and now the Case car). In 1900, Packard, Peerless, Glide, National Electric, Lambert, Elmore, Babcock, Jackson, Knox and Lane were entrants in the lists. In 1901, Acme, Gaeth, Pierce-Arrow, White, Royal Tourist, Stevens-Duryea, Waltham-Orient, Pope-Toledo, Welch, Pullman and Rambler. In 1902, Cadillac, Franklin, Pope, Studebaker, Sultan, Okey, Walter and Schacht. In 1903, Ford, Auburn, Overland, Moline, Premier, Corbin, Bergdall, Holsman, Columbus and Chadwick. In 1904, Buick, Cleveland, American Napier, Stoddard-Dayton, Marmon, Mitchell, Jewel, McIntyre, Pittsburgh Electric, Ranch & Lang and Simplex. In 1905, Alco, American, Dorris, Johnson, Jonz, Kisselcar, Maxwell, Monarch, Reo, Studebaker, Garford and American Mors.