Brand Heritage – 1800s

1868   

 

Horace Elgin Dodge is born in Niles, Michigan. The Dodge Brothers (pdf) -- Biography 

1878

 

Joseph E. Fields (1878 - 1951) (pdf) -- Biography 

1883  

1886

 

Three Musketeers - ZSB (pdf) -- Walter Chrysler called the trio of talented engineers he brought to Willys-Overland from Studebaker Motors the Three Musketeers.

1888

 

Bernard Edwin Hutchinson (1888 - 1961) (pdf) -- Biography 

1897

Maxwell and Chalmers

Bicycle manufacturer Albert Augustus Pope (1843-1909) (maker of Columbia bicycles) begins manufacturing gas and electric vehicles under brand name Columbia.

1899

Maxwell and Chalmers

Pope’s Columbia brand merged with Electric Vehicle Company.

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