#119 The Dodge Brothers

This is the story of two small town machinists who became enormously successful automobile manufacturers in the early years of the auto industry. At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up and coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, Much to Ford's advantage, but John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive market in nineteen fourteen by introducing their own car.

The Dodge Brothers automobile carried on their names even after their untimely deaths in 1920. With the company remaining in the hands of their widows until its sale in nineteen twenty five to New York bankers, and then the subsequent purchase in nineteen twenty eight by Walter Chrysler. The Dodge nameplate has endured. But despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automo automotive industry. Some historians continue to understate the importance of John and Horace Dodge to the automobile industry.

This book is the first scholarly study of the Dodge Brothers and their company. Chronicling their lives from their childhood in Michigan to their long years of learning the machinist trade. and then examining their influence on automotive manufacturing and marketing trends in the early part of the twentieth century. Hyde, that's the author's name, details the brothers' civic contributions to Detroit, their hiring of minorities and women, and their often anonymous charitable contributions to local organizations.

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