1920's Dodge Brothers Car Assembly line (rare footage)

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  • @MH3GL
    @MH3GL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The fact that these machines existed and produced what they did (on the scale that they did) is a testament to the human mind. Not a single computer anywhere - except the ones between their ears. Absolutely incredible.

  • @berniecom728
    @berniecom728 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm very happy to say I own and restored a 1917 Dodge Brothers Touring car from the bottom up, but i didn't wash it with gasoline, it's in mint condition and received many trophies for it. Beautiful car and runs great, thanks Dodge Brothers for your success.

    • @jdubb67
      @jdubb67  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's awesome!

  • @rd4501
    @rd4501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Back in the day when everything was made to last. Love the Dodge classics.

    • @west4057
      @west4057 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      really? how about inconsistant !!!!!!

    • @arlinmayer9456
      @arlinmayer9456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh really Dan? My grandfather had one and it worked and ran just fine for 25+ years. You condescending A hole.

  • @nachtjager77
    @nachtjager77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This is when they built stuff to really last and took pride in their work. Working conditions were tough, but these cars lasted far longer than anything they're building today. I've had a number of prewar cars and currently have a '29 Packard. Even if you find them worn out sitting in a barn, with some basic mechanical know-how, you can get them going again and keep them running forever. You'll never be able to say that about all the plastic computerized junk we have today. Great piece of film!

    • @larryclark9380
      @larryclark9380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My “plastic computerized junk” 2014 Ford Focus has 167k miles on it so far. Running great. Only maintenance has been oil and tires. Yep, sure don’t make them like they used to!
      That said, I am looking to purchase a Ford model T or A in the near future.
      Have a good “1”

    • @geoffdavis4730
      @geoffdavis4730 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@larryclark9380 Ford Focus had absolute garbage gearbox known as power shift . My sisters focus is on its sixth gearbox. Class action In Australia. Have a great day.

    • @larryclark9380
      @larryclark9380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@geoffdavis4730
      Sorry to hear that. Yes, that transmission issue an lawsuit are well known.
      I personally would buy one with those issues to get the price down.
      My 2014 Focus started off with transmission shakes also. I used the hill climbing function on the side of the shifter to change the RPM band at between 1st gear to second gear shifts.
      Over time the problem on mine got 90% better. Not flawless though.
      Car now at 182,000 miles and running well. May be time for it’s first tuneup soon. Still maintaining 39.1 mpg + this is the most miles I have personally had in any automobile.

    • @MH3GL
      @MH3GL 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If I ever get to the point where I can do it, I will make a pre-1930s automobile my daily driver. 100yrs of service is enough to convince me of "reliability."

    • @FNAFFan555
      @FNAFFan555 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@4238001 exactly! Because I have a 2002 Ford explorer sport trac pickup truck that I use as my daily driver. It's I think known to start having transmission problems around 200,000 miles; as long as you do routine maintenance and repairs (though sometimes expensive depending on what needs repairs) could possibly last longer.
      My truck is now currently around 20 years old and has 218,798 miles on it. My hope for it is to get it to at MOST around 250,000 miles or even more before it's done.

  • @clinthowe7629
    @clinthowe7629 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What amazes me is who designed and built all the tooling and machines to make cars? who designed those hanging spot welding machines, and those multi lug pneumatic wrenches that put all the lugs nut at once on a wheel.

  • @davegeisler7802
    @davegeisler7802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Always a Supervisor watching the progress and making sure everyone is working .

  • @martybedigian6936
    @martybedigian6936 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I recently visited the Mosoleum of the Dodge Brothers at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit Michigan. Horace and John.

  • @UfoDan100
    @UfoDan100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My parents bought and trusted Plymouth's. Their first car was a used 1933 Plymouth, then a 1950 Plymouth, then a 1959 Plymouth , then a 1967 Plymouth Valiant and their last and favorite was a 1985 Dodge Aries with AC ! They had a 1975 Ford Maverick , but 1975 turned out to be a bad year for most american cars.

  • @larrykrise3609
    @larrykrise3609 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very,very interesting.enjoyed it much.so many people working
    there.thank you

  • @miketaylor6282
    @miketaylor6282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What’s sad is, back then with inferior machines they could build products that outlast anything made today with our high tech machines.

    • @xlightfootx
      @xlightfootx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cause it's all made in China

    • @dowen1511
      @dowen1511 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah look at the Egyptian and India there stuff is still around 5000 years later 😂 quality just isn't what it used to be . now we just have fancy junk !

  • @MrZorro3250
    @MrZorro3250 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome film love to see rhe manufacturing processes bof that time
    .

  • @omprakashagarwal5103
    @omprakashagarwal5103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very good presentation.

  • @jaminova_1969
    @jaminova_1969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like the test track with the ridiculously steep hill!

  • @alvan4080
    @alvan4080 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Those were some hard working Michiganders

    • @jdubb67
      @jdubb67  ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed

  • @BadObsessionMotorsport
    @BadObsessionMotorsport ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi JDubbs, we're making a video of a 1923 Dodge and would like to use some excerpts from this video with your permission? We will of course credit you in the description and the credits on the video. Best regards, BOM.

    • @jdubb67
      @jdubb67  ปีที่แล้ว

      That's fine with me I have no issue with that look forward to seeing the video

    • @jdubb67
      @jdubb67  ปีที่แล้ว

      Free use as far as I'm co concerned 🙂

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The sound of the movie projector is not needed

  • @violet.senderhauf2187
    @violet.senderhauf2187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I watched footage of the Chevrolet factory from the 1930's and comparing the level of safety difference between Chevrolet working conditions in the 1930's compared to this dodge footage from the 1920's is no contest, Dodge wins at safety hands down the melting ovens are enclosed and encapsulated whereas Chevy had hot metal flying everywhere. Sure things were tough in both cases but this speaks volumes about the dodge brand.

  • @stephenvelden295
    @stephenvelden295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dodge Brothers made most of the parts for the T Model Ford.

    • @Modine.
      @Modine. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was eaven a few years where the Dodge brothers supplied 100% of the mechanicals to Ford. The only thing that was Ford on thoes cars was the body.

  • @lonnyjaw
    @lonnyjaw 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For being the 1920's, the totally jaw-dropping technology of the machinery of that time TO MAKE all those intricate parts! Today with everything 'computer generated' and there is STILL one recall after another in today's automotive industries - and I won't even get into the EV debacle!

  • @solo4870
    @solo4870 ปีที่แล้ว

    even filming this in the 20s. was a great thing with great minds.

    • @jdubb67
      @jdubb67  ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed

  • @kennethbredow3098
    @kennethbredow3098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This was interesting! Thanks.

  • @kennetth1389
    @kennetth1389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fascinating

  • @phillipgarrow2297
    @phillipgarrow2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The dodge Brothers would turn in over in there graves to see what the namesake of there cars have become

    • @stopmakingsense9915
      @stopmakingsense9915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What on earth are you talking about….you have a problem with hemi Challengers?

    • @frankgarrett242
      @frankgarrett242 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stopmakingsense9915
      Phillip misses his Neon.

  • @markadams7597
    @markadams7597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow! This is a great flick! Just wish it included the sound track. I'd like to hear the machines, people talking, and the roar of those mighty Dodge four cylinders. Bet those 4-bangers are 50-75 CIDs with around 40 hp. Brilliant!!

    • @spannaspinna
      @spannaspinna 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably more like 20hp

    • @hyzercreek
      @hyzercreek 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They didn't invent soundtrack until 1927 The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson was the first talkie.

    • @hyzercreek
      @hyzercreek 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spannaspinna No, he was right the first time, but the CID was more like 225

  • @jdollinter
    @jdollinter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    8:01 How long did the guy spraying leaded gasoline on the body parts last ? My God, the working conditions must of been hell .

    • @UfoDan100
      @UfoDan100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think. lead was not used in the 1920's. Lead was not used until the 1950's. First used for air cooled aircraft engines. Today , liberals deplore real cars and want us on unemployment , meds. , drugs and vaccines. It is a worse hell not having a job.

    • @waterheaterservices
      @waterheaterservices 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@UfoDan100 Indeed, the worst thing we can do is nothing.

    • @chuckz8053
      @chuckz8053 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@UfoDan100 I'm a democrat that drives a 392 hemi.

    • @markadams7597
      @markadams7597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My Great grandparents and grandparents were in these generations of the portrayed Dodge workers; they lived into their 90s. The people, closer to nature, lived longer back then.

  • @angelastark7644
    @angelastark7644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Darryl would have liked to have seen this footage.

  • @joepeanut6827
    @joepeanut6827 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It amazing how those old two wheel drive 4 cylinder cars could do thing that v8 4 wheel drive cars can't do today.
    Climbing an ice covered steep hill without chains.on skinny little tires. find a car that can do that today.
    And quality control nowadays is Non existent.

  • @Seashed
    @Seashed 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sprayed with gasoline before painting!? Flammable much?

  • @ronaldfazekas6492
    @ronaldfazekas6492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This may even be the late 'teens , given the touring car body shapes and the white (not whitewall) tires

    • @arlinmayer9456
      @arlinmayer9456 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s before they started putting dye in the rubber.

    • @johnnyb4187
      @johnnyb4187 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've read elsewhere that this was 1917.

  • @honda350racer6
    @honda350racer6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder what year they stopped supplying Ford and did they're own car, might be why this film is made ,showing them at work making the new dodge cars.The engineers of the time are credited for everything in this time in history,it took genius to do what the did .

    • @josecalderon4048
      @josecalderon4048 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was in 1910 I believe that they stop supplying ford, then in 1917 they build the first dodge model 30

  • @phillipgarrow2297
    @phillipgarrow2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Workers safety wasn't a issue back then

  • @danielcorey8928
    @danielcorey8928 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My car being built it's a done deal I get it tomarrow

  • @Imnotplayinganymore
    @Imnotplayinganymore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    at about 21:30 did you catch the high 5?

    • @clinthowe7629
      @clinthowe7629 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      on mine it was more like 21:42 but yeah i see the high five between the two passing cars.

  • @100aceswid
    @100aceswid ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Must have Mopar

    • @jdubb67
      @jdubb67  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed

  • @michaelmccoy7986
    @michaelmccoy7986 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd love to have one of those Brand new...

  • @billkarmetsky4003
    @billkarmetsky4003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    100 years is not all that much in the annuls of time. I am struck by the sheer manpower and skill it took plus modern machines of those times. The entire process looks wasteful and toxic. I think men and women lived short lives. But the entire process is majesty to behold. God bless all these skilled workers in an industry that employed 10's if not 100's of millions of Americans through every trade imaginable.

    • @2500mike
      @2500mike 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't think anyone could have said it better. They gave their lives to put food on the table and keep a country moving. The ones fortunate enough to live to an old age had great stories to tell

  • @earlgarrett145
    @earlgarrett145 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did everyone know dodge originated off of Ford two guys left Ford and started making dodges with ford's ideal

  • @CarminesRCTipsandTricks
    @CarminesRCTipsandTricks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ..... I guess FRONT BRAKES were an option!!!

    • @hyzercreek
      @hyzercreek 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No front brakes until 1925

  • @west4057
    @west4057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    how about the cyianide position ? good department for longevity !!!!!!!! of your LIFE !!!!!!

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Needs to be slower movement just a little

  • @Underledge
    @Underledge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Manpower and plenty of it was required compared to now.

  • @williamworden3597
    @williamworden3597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God, that was a lot of men...altho I saw no one standing around with their finger up their nose (well maybe a supervisor). Wonder how many survived working those "cyanide" ovens. I would want to be an "inspector" 😄

  • @truthsayers8725
    @truthsayers8725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    yep. cars made to last and they did for about 40k miles maybe...
    welds and rivets and screwed pieces broke, broke and came apart...
    one of those cars, subjected to the same rigors as your car today, wouldnt make it much past the length of loan.
    and as you see no crumple zones or safety equipment so if you outlived your car, you were one up

    • @timothykeith1367
      @timothykeith1367 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, and all the owners are deceased! What a bad deal.

    • @paulnicholson1906
      @paulnicholson1906 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is true. They didn’t last many miles back in the day the only thing is they didn’t go as far and were simpler to repair and restore.

  • @jonnygarland4741
    @jonnygarland4741 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well all of them bring New t-models are in a graveyard NOW and every one of them people was making them T-Mobile's are all dead and are also in a graveyard NOW and all of those people are in heaven or in hell forever and NEVER EVER KNOW ENDING NOW . Well THAT is were all of those cars also people are ToDay .

  • @benniehelders
    @benniehelders 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    hermoso video ... yo tengo un dodge brothers 1924 :)