Cadillac
Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company. After a dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company along with several of his key partners in March 1902. Ford's financial backers William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and equipment in preparation for liquidating the company's assets. Instead, Leland persuaded the pair to continue manufacturing automobiles using Leland's proven single-cylinder engine. A new company called the Cadillac Automobile Company was established on 22 August 1902, re-purposing the Henry Ford Company factory at Cass Street and Amsterdam Avenue. It was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who had founded Detroit in 1701.
Manac (trailers)
In 1966 the company was founded by Marcel Dutil who had to respond to the growing demand of semi-trailers within his company, Canam Steel Works based in Saint-Gédéon, Quebec. The shipping delay within the trailer industry in the sixties was well over 6 months, Dutil then decided that he would make his own trailers in an open garage within his factory in Saint-Gédéon and would make the finishing touches in the barn behind his home in Saint-Georges, Quebec. In October 1966 Marcel Dutil incorporates the Company. While producing trailers for Canam many small transporters within the region of Beauce, Quebec started noticing the speed at which the Manac trailers were being delivered and began putting in their orders. The production of Manac trailers within the first year were only flatbeds and Manac will only manufacture eleven units within its first year.CPS Trailers were acquired by Manac in 2002. The brand name CPS Dump Trailer began in 80’s in the goal of helping the construction and agriculture industry with its need of specific semi-trailers. Manac uses its CPS brand only in the United States and produces its CPS units in its Oran, Missouri factory. CPS offers the following products: