Dodge Motor Company of America.
Dodge is an American automobile company founded by the Dodge brothers in 1914. The brand trademark adopts the surname "Dodge" of the Dodge brothers. The graphic trademark is an image of a sheep's head in a pentagon. Two trademarks, the small ram and the big ram, are used on the car. In 1925, after the death of the Dodge brothers, the company was sold to the Bank of New York. In 1928, he joined Chrysler Motor Company.
Brothers John and Howard Dodge were shareholders and directors of Henry Ford, and their factory originally produced parts for Ford automobiles. Due to Ford's success, the Dodge brothers also benefited from it and began to develop their own company to become Ford's rival. The Dodge brothers split from Ford in 1919. Later, Dodge became the backbone of Chrysler Automobile Group.
The founders of the Dodge brand are a pair of brothers who were born in Michigan, USA. The elder brother John Dodge was born in 1864, and the younger brother Horade Dodge was born in 1868. In 1886, the Dodge family moved to Detroit and began their entrepreneurial journey.
In the 1890s, bicycles were the main form of transportation in Detroit. In 1897, his younger brother Horide, who commuted to get off work on a bicycle every day, invented the dust-proof bearing.
Elder brother John decided that the brothers would establish the Evans and Dodge Bicycle Company on the Detroit River in Canada.
Three years later, the company was acquired by National Bicycle Company of Canada. The Dodge brothers received $7,500 in cash and the patent rights to the bearings, and this was the beginning of their fortune.
They purchased machinery and rented land at Lafitte and Burbin streets in Detroit. Subsequently, the first Dodge Machine Shop opened in 1901 with 12 employees.
In the first year, Dodge Brothers received a large number of orders. They want to manufacture 3,000 sets of gearboxes, but this requires a large investment in machinery and equipment.
If luck played a role in Dodge's success, it was that the Canadian Bicycle Company went bankrupt at this time. As compensation for using the Horrid bearing patent, the Dodge brothers were lucky enough to receive its machinery and equipment. .