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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. " 3 0 "
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 9 0 ' 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.
f i r s t 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 M o t o r Car Division • General M o t o r s Corporation
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