[Royce P]

The way things worked back then, Oliver Berthel or Wills would make a sketch of what was needed. The pattern maker would make a model. Henry Ford would either approve the model or ask for changes. Then another model would be made. Once the design was agreed upon, the model would go to the foundry. Core boxes and molds would have been made by the foundry that early. Reading through the text of these and others, it is apparent that Dodge Brothers was mostly the machine shop, not the place that made castings. Frames came from AO Smith in Milwaukee. The cars were only assembled by Ford, as well as designed by Ford.