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Latest archived mark · 2017

Ford

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Latest archived mark · 1909

Abbott-Detroit

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What we compare	Ford	Abbott-Detroit
Country in archive	United States	United States
Founded	June 16, 1903	1909
Founder	Henry Ford	Abbott Motor Company
Headquarters	Dearborn, Michigan, United States	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Name origin	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.	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.
Selected models	Model T, Mustang, F-150, Bronco, GT40, Mustang Mach-E	Fore Door Roadster, Battleship Roadster, Model F, Model L, Model K
Earliest archived brand logo	1903	1909
Latest archived logo	2017	1909
Archived logo assets	11	1

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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