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The Dodge Brothers made castings and forgings for Ford under contact till about 1914. The engine/transmission/flywheel magneto was designed by H. Ford and a group of his employees the DB were not involved. While the first engines did have a water pump, the engine was never designed as a water pump, it was a car engine from the start. The enclosed rear end was used on his earlier models and the concept of the planetary transmission was used on a number of other makes along with his earlier cars. The big thing was: everything was enclosed, the engine and transmission shared the same oil, had a removable head and built in power supply for the ignition, no clashing of straight cut gears in the transmission. I am not handy with all the names of the people involved.