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Founders Notes: Dodge Brothers

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The Dodge Brothers Charles K. Hyde The Dodge brothers were relatively obscure figures to their contemporary public when they worked as manufacturers of parts for the Olds Motor Works and the Ford Motor Company from 1901 through 1914. They then manufactured their own automobiles for only six years, but by the time they both died in 1920, they had earned considerable recognition and respect for their work and their contributions to the Detroit community. Unlike Henry Ford, who developed an apparatus to promote and control his public image, the Dodge brothers preferred that people knew them through the Dodge Brothers automobile. (Location 91) Some historians continue to understate the importance of John and Horace Dodge to the automobile industry. (Location 101) For the first three years of Ford Motor Company's operation, Dodge Brothers supplied Ford with the entire Ford automobile except the wheels, tires, and bodies. (Location 104) This is the story of two small-town machinists who became enormously successful automobile manufacturers in the early years of the Michigan auto industry. (Location 107) the brothers grew up in a family that included a father and two uncles who were machi

The Dodge Brothers Charles K. Hyde The Dodge brothers were relatively obscure figures to their contemporary public when they worked as manufacturers of parts for the Olds Motor Works and the Ford Motor Company from 1901 through 1914. They then manufactured their own automobiles for only six years, but by the time they both died in 1920, they had earned considerable recognition and respect for their work and their contributions to the Detroit community. Unlike Henry Ford, who developed an apparatus to promote and control his public image, the Dodge brothers preferred that people knew them…

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