IF YOU HAVE A DODGE or Ram pickup in your driveway you should know this: There’s a Graham in its past. And we’re not talking about crackers.
Chrysler’s Dodge Truck Division (now known as Ram) came into existence in a somewhat convoluted way. Years before Dodge had a truck division—in fact, years before there was a Chrysler Corporation—there was an independent automobile company called Dodge Brothers. The two founders were brothers John and Horace Dodge, redheaded mechanics who got their start in the automobile business with a machine shop they set up in Detroit. Established in 1900, their shop specialized in manufacturing parts for the many small automakers that were being opened in and around Detroit.
In 1903, Henry Ford, cranking up production for his third try at
