Dodge was an American automobile brand and a division of Stellantis, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Its manufacturing operations were historically centered on a main factory in Hamtramck, Michigan, which operated from 1910 until it closed in January 1980. The company originated as a machine shop founded in Detroit in 1900 by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge. Initially, the Dodge brothers supplied precision engine and chassis parts…