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John Francis Dodge

By aaronlikescars

  • Birth

    Birth
    John Francis Dodge is born October 25th 1864

  • Brother Birth

    Brother Birth
    Horace Dodge is born May 17th 1868

  • Bicycle

    Bicycle
    The brothers co-founded a bicycle company.

  • Detroit

    Detroit
    1900 the brothers have sold the bike shop and moved to Detroit and opened a machine shop for the growing auto industry.

  • Get hired

    Brothers are hired by Ransom Olds to make engines for his new curved dash mobiles.

  • Ford

    Ford
    Henry ford contracts Dodge to build engines, transmissions, and axles. Ford unfortunately is not able to pay them in cash and payed them in stock.

  • Brothers leave Ford

    Brothers leave Ford
    Brothers leave ford and create Dodge Brothers Motor company.

  • First car

    First car
    Brothers come out with their 1st 4 cylinder cars.

  • The Boom

    The Boom
    1915 Dodge sells 45,000 cars

  • 1st trucks

    1st trucks
    1918 Dodge makes 1st trucks and supplies America during ww1

  • 1919

    1919
    Dodge sells Ford stock for $21 million dollars.

  • January

    January
    Brothers travel to a auto expo. Both get sick with the flu and pneumonia. That same month John dies. Later in the year in December Horace dies. One of the widows sell the company and Chrysler buys it for $170 million.

  • Today

    Today
    The $170 million Chrysler used to buy Dodge in 1920 is equal to $2,259,767,724.87 in the money we use today