Engineer Henry M Leland was called in to liquidate the assets of Henry Ford's failed first car company in 1902. Leland decided instead to restart manufacture using his own engine. The marque was named 'Cadillac' after an aristocratic ancestor of Leland. Leland left Cadillac in 1917, which had been owned by the Durant General Motors group since 1909. The Lincoln Motor Company was founded by Leland when Durant refused to sanction the production of aircraft engines during The Great War because of his pacifist beliefs. Leland built the aircraft engines, and then branched off into building luxury cars when aircraft sales declined. Ford bought Lincoln in 1922 and Leland left when Ford moved in his own management. Famous Lincoln cars included the streamlined Zephyr 1936-42 and the Continental which first saw the light of day as a one-off in 1939.