Dodge Brothers Truck Logo
by Kathy Barney
Title
Dodge Brothers Truck Logo
Artist
Kathy Barney
Medium
Photograph - Photography-digital Art
Description
Star: The original Dodge was a circle, with two interlocking triangles forming a six-pointed star in the middle; an interlocked "DB" was at the center of the star, and the words "Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicles" encircled the outside edge. Although similar to the Star of David, the Dodge brothers were not Jewish. Although the "Brothers" was dropped from the name for trucks in 1929 and cars in 1930, the DB star remained in the cars until the 1939 models were introduced.
Since the Dodge brothers, Horace and Francis, had had a falling out with Henry Ford during their tenure there, it has been suggested that the Star of David was used as a prominant logo to anger Ford. Ford was notoriously aniti- semetic.
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January 20th, 2015
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