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 Detroit's primary form of transportation. In 1897, his younger brother Horide, who commuted to get off work on a bicycle every day, invented the dust-proof bearing. 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 equipment and rented land at Lafitte and Burbin streets in Detroit. Subsequently, the first Dodge Machine Shop opened in 1901 with 12 employees. Within 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, and the Dodge brothers were lucky enough to receive its machinery as compensation for using the Horrid bearing patent.