 Henry Ford turned to an acquaintance, coal dealer Alexander Y. Malcomson, to help finance another automobile company.Malcomson put up the money to start the partnership "Ford and Malcomson" and the pair designed a car and began ordering parts.However, by February 1903, Ford and Malcomson had gone through more money than expected, and the manufacturing firm of John and Horace Dodge, who had made parts for Ford and Malcomson, was demanding payment.