Category:Dietrich Motor Car Company

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The Dietrich Motor Car Company was the first franchised auto dealership in Allentown, opening in February 1902 when O H Dietrict opened a garage at 26 North Tenth Street. The automobile had first appeared in Allentown in the late 1800s when Henry Nadig began assembling automobiles in his shop around Third and Gordon Street.

In 1907. Dietrich began selling automobiles, initially selling Cadillac, Buick, Thomas, and Franklin cars. Over the next few years, the company focused its sales on Buicks and Cadillacs and moved to 942-952 Linden in 1910. In 1910, the Buick dealership was transferred to Walter F. Wink and the Wink Motor Car Company. Wink has been with Dietrich in 1902 and had left in 1904 to form a business on his own. In 1919, Dietrich again became a Buick dealer along with Cadillac when Wink chose to go with Nash Automobiles. It sold both Buicks and Cadillacs until 1955.

In 1955, the dealership moved to a new facility at 1351 Tilghman Streets, taking up nearly the dealership closed it's property in the late 1950s and moved to Thirteenth and Tilghman and expanded its building to nearly the entire block between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. With the move to 14th and Tilghman, Dietrict dropped the Buick dealership for good and concentrated on being the sole Cadillac dealer in Lehigh County.

In February 1962 the business was sold and it became Daniel's Cadillac. Daniels remained a Cadillac dealership, adding German BMWs in 1974. In 2007, the dealership moved to Kuhnsville and dropped the Cadillac line when General Motors reorganized and dropped many dealerships. Daniels became a BMW dealership which continues today.

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