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Latest archived mark · 1909

Abbott-Detroit

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Ford

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What we compare	Abbott-Detroit	Ford
Country in archive	United States	United States
Founded	1909	June 16, 1903
Founder	Abbott Motor Company	Henry Ford
Headquarters	Detroit, Michigan, United States	Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Name origin	The name pairs Abbott, the name of the Abbott Motor Company, with Detroit, the city where the cars were built. The sources consulted do not say who Abbott was, so the exact origin of the surname is not confirmed here. Naming a car after both a maker and a home city was common among early automobile builders.	The company carries Henry Ford's surname. In the badge, that name is treated as a wordmark: its connected strokes make the lettering recognizable as an image as well as a word.
Selected models	Fore Door Roadster, Battleship Roadster, Model F, Model L, Model K	Model T, Mustang, F-150, Bronco, GT40, Mustang Mach-E
Earliest archived brand logo	1909	1903
Latest archived logo	1909	2017
Archived logo assets	1	11

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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