This article is about a specialist car company that developed pure racing machines and was a huge success in the States. The company is Cunningham – the creator of the racing stripe at a time when teams used national racing colours. This Cunningham is not related to the luxury Cunningham cars of the 1920s and 1930s. The company was founded by Briggs Cunningham II in the US … [Read more...]
Henry Leland
Henry Leland has a great claim to fame: founding two luxury brands that eventually became competitors - one in the Ford empire and one over the road in General Motors. He was born up in the very north of Vermont in the east of the US in 1843 almost in Canada. He worked in several factories as a youth before the Civil War erupted when he was in his early 20s. This lead him to … [Read more...]