Posted by MoparNorm on Monday, May 21, 2001 at 6:27PM :
In Reply to: Well that makes sense... posted by Brian in Oregon on Monday, May 21, 2001 at 12:20PM :
Hi Brian,
Exactly right on with the firing order! The blocks are just numbered differently. It all comes down to who hired or fired who first, since many of the "inventors/originators" of the early automobiles worked for or were suppliers to various different manufacturers prior to going into business for themselves. According to the History of the Dodge Brothers, all Henry Ford did was buy tires and the ford badges, ALL fords until 1914 were built by Dodge, the Dodge Brothers became wealthy enough with stock options to start their own company when Henry decided to bring all manufacturing in-house. All early Dodge trucks, from 1915 to 1928 were badged as Graham Brothers, even though Dodge built them. When the Dodge Brothers both tragically died, Chrysler bought the company from the bank. Since Graham now made cars and competed with Chrysler, the trucks were then called Dodge (or Fargo) from 1928 on. The New Process gear Company got it's start when Ransom E. Olds needed transmissions for his first car, the 1903 curved dash Oldsmobile. Dodge has provided transmission for gm ever since, but as New Process and now New Venture (partially owned by gm in a joint venture since gm has a hard time justifying outsourcing trannys when it owns Allison). As for engines, nearly ever tank in WWII had Chrysler gasoline engines, V-12's and V-16's (two V-8's mated together) When gm bought the Chrysler Tank division (along with General Dynamics, confused yet???) they became privy to many engineering improvements that found their way into the gm engine line. Just as a side note, when AMGeneral still was a part of AMC, General Dynamics was testing advanced variants of the Humvee as Standard Missle launchers. The first Humvee "test mules" that I saw all had 440 Mopar Engines in them!
In the Automobile Industry, it is not always the best that survive, just the biggest or most cunning. I hope Chrysler can survive this episode as it did the Renault disaster.
Remember, those are primarily our Fellow Americans who will lose their jobs if Chrysler goes down. A lot of companies don't deserve to survive (gm???) but Dodge and Jeep are not one of them.
MoparNorm
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