Dodge

History Dodge Company

1. In 1901, John Francis Dodge and Horace Elgin Dodge moved their factory Brothers Bicycle & Machine Factory to Detroit (Michigan, USA) from Windsor (Ontario, Canada), where they built parts for cars. Their bearings and other parts were in demand with the early automobile industry and helped design motor parts for early Oldsmobile cars. In 1902, the Dodge Brothers were approached by Henry Ford, who was looking for help in financing his own automobile company. They helped at the start of the Ford Motor Company as well as manufacturing parts for early Ford, achieving mutual benefit both Ford and the Dodge brothers. Already in 1913, almost every piece of Ford (chassis, suspension, brakes, engines, transmissions, etc.) were built by Dodge.

2. The Dodge name because it is the last of the founding brothers Dodge. It was originally named Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company (1914-1927), after Chrysler acquired the Dodge company in 1928 which remains part of the Chrysler Group LLC.

3. Many kinds of raw materials, steel is obviously the most used is used, however, as there is a myriad of components on the vehicle is used almost all types of materials. Regarding machinery, cars are assembled usually using the production line, operators (workers) are putting the pieces with which the car is armed and often make very repetitive operations, sometimes robots are used when you can not use human labor, for example, thermal or electrical processes or including a risk to the person. It is used mainly in production line, for example; pneumatic guns, welding, electrical testers, cranes, forklifts, "conveyours" (which are like carousels allowing supply of material to the line). The production lines are quite long, measuring up to several kilometers.

4. Dodge is a car industry that specializes in the manufacture of automobiles hatchback, liftback, sedan, coupe, convertible and pickup.

5. After Chrysler took possession of the English group Rootes, the Simca of France, Barreiros in Spain, and the resultant establishment of Chrysler Europe in the late sixties, the Dodge brand was used on light commercial vehicles, mostly in called initially Commer or Karrier (Rootes subsidiaries), in the version of Simca 1100, in the Spanish Dodge Dart, and on heavy vehicles built in Spain. The best known were the Dodge 50 series, widely used by utility companies and the military, but rarely seen outside the UK, with heavy Spanish constructions of series 300 available as off-road 4x2, 6x4, 8x2 and 8x4, and as the semi-trailer trucks. They were also sold in export markets such as Fargo or De Soto.