Dammann, George H.: 70 Years of Chrysler, Crestline Publishing Co., Glen Ellyn IL (1974), Osceola WI, ISBN 0-91.Woudenberg, Paul R.: Lincoln and Continental 1946–1980 – The classic Postwar Years Motorbooks International, Osceola WI (USA) 1993, ISBN 0-87938-730-0.(editors): The Golden Anniversary of the Lincoln Motor Car 1921–1971 Automobile Quarterly, Inc., New York (1970), Library of Congress Card No 26,4005 Kimes, Beverly Rae and Langworth, Richard M.Hutton, Ray and Lewandowski, Jürgen: Lincoln – An American Tradition, Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld (Hrsg.(Herausgeberin) Packard, a history of the motor car and the company General edition, 1978 Automobile Quarterly, ISBN 0-91 London / Motorbooks International Minneapolis (1973), ISBN 0-90 Pfau, Hugo: The Coachbuilt Packard Dalton-Watson Ltd.At the time, Kalamazoo was the home of Gibson Guitars and in 1962, Gibson boss Ted McCarty, convinced Dietrich to come out of retirement to design a new solid-body electric guitar that would not be limited by the traditional ways of designing and engineering an electric guitar - the result was the classic, 'reverse' Gibson Firebird, released in 1963, one of the most iconic and recognisable electric guitar designs ever. Dietrich's office at Checker remained untouched years after his death.ĭietrich retired to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1960 at the age of 66. Dietrich was also instrumental in designing the Checker Model A2 introduced in the fall of 1947. while at Checker he partnered with Auburn engineer Herb Snow and developed the ill-fated front wheel drive, transverse engine Model "D" Checker prototype. One of his primary clients was the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company, (renamed Checker Motors Corporation in 1958) in Kalamazoo, MI. was closed in 1936 Raymond Dietrich became in 1932 the first head of design of Chrysler (until 1938).Īfterwards, he freelanced as Raymond H. Raymond Dietrich further was a design consultant with Packard.īy September 1930, Dietrich was out of his company.
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built custom bodies to single orders, and proposed semi-customs (similarly built as full customs, but in small lots of usually 5–10 units) for the catalogues of Lincoln (then headed by Edsel Ford) or Packard. did substantial styling work for standard bodies for Packard, Franklin, and Erskine, a corporate make of Studebaker. Dietrich himself held 50% of the stock.ĭietrich, Inc. Murray was itself a vendor of standard bodies to the Ford Motor Company, and hoped for an in-house source for designing and building custom bodies for luxury cars. He was a close friend to Edsel Ford who supported him by talking the owner of the J W Murray Manufacturing Co into partly financing the venture. Dietrich (1894–1980), co-founder of LeBaron Incorporated in New York City. was an American coachbuilder founded in 1925 by Raymond H. ( October 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭietrich Inc. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations.
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