1968-1902 CADILLAC MILE STONES-Continued
Model
Year
1924
1923
1922
1921
1920
1919
1918
1917
1916
1915
1914
1913
1912
1911
1910
Total
Production
18,827
14.707
26,296
5.250
19,628
20.678
20,285
18,002
18,003
13,001
14,002
15,017
13,934
10,018
8.006
Type
of
Cars
Produced
V-8
"63"
V-8 "61"
V-8
"61"
V-8
"59"
V-8 "59"
V-8
"57"
V-8
"57"
V-8
"55"
V-8 "53"
V-8
"51"
4
cyl.
"1914"
4
cyl.
••1913"
4
cyl.
"1912"
4
cyl.
"30"
4
cyl.
"30"
List Price
(Typical
Car)
3,835
4,150
$4,100
4,950
4,750
4,090
3,535
3,110
2.950
2,800
2,800
3,250
3.250
1,800
1,600
Wheelbase
132"
138"
132"
132"
125"
125"
125"
125"
122"
120"
120"
120"
116"
116"
106"
1909
5.902
4 cyl.
"30"
1.400
106"
1908
1907
1906
1905
1904
1903»
1902)
2.012
2,696
4,307
4,182
2,318
2,500
/
1
cyl.
"T
14
cyl.
"H"
41
cyl.
"M"
\ 4
cyl.
"G"
|4
cyl.
"H"
(1
cyl.
"M"
14
cyl.
"H"
f 1
cyl.
"F"
1,4
cyl.
"D"
1
cyl.
"B"
1
cyl.
"A"
1.000
2,500
950
2,000
2,500
950
2,500
950
2,800
960
850
82
102
76
100
102
76
102
76
100
76
76
Milestones
First
to
provide wide choice
of
Duco Exterior Finishes
as
standard equipment.
First
to
build
the
inherently balanced
90'
V-type eight-
cylinder engine. First
to
use
the
Compensated Crankshaft.
Four-wheel brakes featured.
First
to
use Thermostatic Carburetor Control.
Cadillac completes
new
Clark
Ave.,
Detroit, plant, most
modern
in the
industry.
Cadillac supplied 2,350 cars
and 1,157 V-8
artillery tractor
engines
to U. S.
Army.
Cadillac adopted
as
Standard Officers'
car by U. S.
Army
after grueling tests
at
Wlarfa, Texas.
Cadillac becomes "Division
of
General Motors."
First
to
use Tilt-Beam Headlights
for
night driving safety.
October —First
in
this country
to
offer
a
production
car
(1915 Cadillac) with a V-type, water cooled, eight-cylinder
engine,
the
prototype
of
engines later used throughout
the
industry. First
to
use thermostatic control
of
cooling system.
first
to
equip cars with Electric Starting, Lighting, Ignition,
for which Cadillac again
was
awarded
the
Dewar Trophy.
First
and
only
car in the
world
to win
this award twice.
Custom Coachcraft
by
Fleetwood Body Company begins.
First
to
offer Closed Bodies
as
standard equipment. Less
than 10%
of
cars then produced
had
closed bodies.
Cadillac purchased
by
General Motors Corporation. Four-
cylinder production increases
six
times over
1908
pro-
duction.
First American
car to be
awarded
the
D&war Trophy
by
Royal Automobile Club
of
London
for
being First
to
achieve interchangeability through standardization
of
parts.
Famous Johansson gauges. First imported into United
States
by
Cadillac, enable Cadillac
to
become
the
following
year the
—
First four-cylinder establishes Cadilla'c
as the
pioneer
of
multi
-cylinder motor cars.
Cadillac Automobile
Co. and
Leland
&
Faulconer consoli-
date
as
"Cadillac Motor
Car
Company" with Henry
M,
Leland,
grand
old
man.of the industry,
as
General Manager.
Detroit Automobile
Co.,
established
1899,
reorganized
as
"Cadillac Automobile
Co."
The Cadillac Motor Car Division of General Motors Corporation reserves the right to make changes at any time,
without notice, in prices, colors, materials, equipment, specifications and models, and also to discontinue models.
All information contained herein has been carefully checked with the most reliable sources, but responsibility for the
absolute authenticity of this information cannot be assumed. The right is reserved to change any specifications, parts
or equipment at any time without incurring any obligation to equip same on cars built prior to date of such change.
The 1969 Cadillac Data Book was compiled as of August 1963, and was printed in U. S. A. The above reservations
apply to all pages unless otherwise noted,
Cadillac Motor
Car
Division
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