History Dodge Company

2. • 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.

3. • 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.

4. • 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.

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

6. • 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.