Dodge, Horace E.; and Dodge, John F.

Dodge, Horace E.; and Dodge, John F.

▪ American industrialists
in full  Horace Elgin Dodge  and  John Francis Dodge 
Respectively,
 
born May 17, 1868, Niles, Mich., U.S.
died Dec. 10, 1920
born Oct. 25, 1864, Niles, Mich., U.S.
died Jan. 14, 1920, New York, N.Y.

      American brothers, automobile manufacturers who invented one of the first all-steel cars in America.

      Bicycles were the first vehicles produced by the Dodge brothers. In 1901 they opened a machine shop in Detroit, making stove parts and, later, auto parts. The Dodge Brothers Company in 1910 established a large auto-parts plant in Hamtramck, Mich. There the brothers made engines and other auto parts for the Ford Motor Company and for Olds Motor Works. In 1913 they began producing their own automobiles, and the first Dodge automobile appeared on Nov. 14, 1914. Horace Dodge was responsible for a number of manufacturing innovations, including an oven that could bake enamel onto steel auto bodies. By 1920, the year in which both brothers died, Dodge was one of the industry's largest companies. The Dodge concern was purchased by Chrysler Corporation in 1928 and remains a division of Chrysler.

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