Which car manufacturer was founded by Henry Ford in 1903?

The car manufacturer founded by Henry Ford in 1903 was the Ford Motor Company.

Ford Motor Company was incorporated in Detroit on June 16, 1903, with Henry Ford and 11 other investors. Ford had already built experimental vehicles and had been involved with earlier automobile ventures, but the 1903 company became the lasting enterprise associated with his name.

The firm initially assembled cars in a converted factory and soon expanded production. Its 1908 Model T and the moving assembly line introduced at Highland Park in 1913 helped make automobiles more affordable and transformed industrial manufacturing. Fordism became shorthand for highly organized mass production.

The company is often confused with the Henry Ford Company, an earlier venture that Ford left in 1902. That earlier firm later became Cadillac. Another common mix-up is the role of the Dodge brothers: John and Horace Dodge were early investors and suppliers, but they did not found Ford.