Category:Ford Motor Company dealerships in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Haldeman Ford Lincoln 2443 Lehigh Street is the current Ford Motor Company dealership in Allentown. Owned by Paul Halderman, since 1982, Halerman has the territorial rights for Ford in Allentown and Lehigh County. Halderman also operates a Ford dealership in Kutztown.
The Ford Motor Company has had a franchise in Allentown since 1916 when the Lawfer Automobile Company at 1211 Hamilton Street began selling Henry Ford's automobiles along with the Chalmers brand. It was one of the first Ford dealerships in the United States. The Lawfer Automobile Company sold Fords until Dahl Motors, owned by Harry Dahl acquired the franchise in November 1938. Dahl moved to Allentown from Oshkosh, Wisconsin where he had a Ford dealership. Lawfer continued to sell used cars until 1942 when Dahl acquired his salesroom and service facilities at Twelfth and Hamilton and moved to that location. Dahl opened a second location at Eighteenth and Tilghman Streets in 1949 for truck sales and service.
In June, 1959 Dahl Motors decided to divest it's Allentown dealerships and concentrate on a series of dealerships it owned in the midwest. The Ford dealership was taken over by Alden MacLellan, who previously sold Dodge and Plymouths at Seventeenth and Tilshman. MacLellan was a long-time Chrysler dealer, having been in buisness in Allentown since 1935. He had moved his dealership to Seventeenth in 1950. MacLellan transferred the Ford dealership to his facility and moved the Dodge/Plymouth dealership to the former Dahl salesroom at Eighteenth and Tilshman. The Dodge/Plymouth dealership was subsequently sold as well as the now empty dealership at Twelfth and Hamilton which became a used car dealership run by another company. That building, the origional Ford franchise in Allentown, caught fire in 1968 in a multi-alarm blaze and was destroyed.
MacLellan held the Ford franchise in Allentown for only a brief period, as he left the automobile business in April 1967. Robert P Kelly had operated a Ford dealership in Conshohocken, near Philadelphia with his two brothers since 1963. Kelly took over the MacLellan dealership at 17th & Tilghman and renamed it Kelly Ford. Kelly successfully operated the dealership until September 1982 when he chose to drop his affiliation with Ford and become a Buick/AMC/Renault dealer in Emmaus, taking over C & G Motors.
With Kelly's departure, Paul Halderman took over the Ford Franchise and moved it to his existing dealership at Eighteenth and Tilshman, where he had taken over MacLellan's Dodge dealership in 1959. The Fords at 17th ant Tilghman were moved to Halderman's dealership a block down the street and the Dodges and Plymouths were sold off. At the same time, Outten Chevrolet at Nineteenth and Tilghman bought the old Kelly Ford dealership building and moved hid dealership to Seventeenth and Tilghman.
Halderman Ford operated successfully at Eighteenth and Tilghman Streets until deciding to build a new dealership at it's present location on Lehigh Street in 2011. On 1 April 2011, Halderman moved to 2443 Lehigh street and sold the dealership on Tilghman to another buyer.
- Ford
- Lincoln-Mercury
- Lawfer Automobile Company (Lincoln) 1922-1938
- Murray Auto Corporation (Lincoln) 1938
- Dahl Motors (Lincoln-Mercury) 1938-1948
- Twin City Motors (Lincoln-Mercury) 1948-1958
- John Wood Motors (Lincoln-Mercury) 1958-1961
- C & G Lincoln-Mercury 1961
- Solomon Lincoln-Mercury 1961-1978
- Kennedy-Haldeman Lincoln-Mercury 1978-1990
- Haldeman Lincoln-Mercury 1990-2010
- Haldeman Linoln 2010-Present
- Zephyr
- Reliance Motor Company 1935-1938
- Murray Auto Corporaton 1938
- Dahl Motors 1938-1941
- Edsel
- Lehigh Motor Company 1957-1958
- John Wood Motors 1958-1959
Subcategories
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Media in category "Ford Motor Company dealerships in Allentown, Pennsylvania"
The following 20 files are in this category, out of 20 total.
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1924 - George F Schlegel - Ford Dealer - Trade Card - Allentown PA.jpg 1,400 × 794; 240 KB
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1935 - Murray Auto Corporation - 20 Dec MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,421 × 1,381; 263 KB
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1935 - Reliance Motor Company - 19 Nov MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,391 × 3,391; 1,018 KB
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1936 - Murray Auto Corporation - 20 Nov MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,381 × 1,117; 400 KB
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1936 - Murray Auto Corporation - 21 Nov MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,429 × 2,529; 555 KB
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1936 - Reliance Motor Company - 24 Jan MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,901 × 2,816; 706 KB
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1937 - Reliance Motor Company - 11 May MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,481 × 1,908; 715 KB
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1937 - William B Cass Ford - 13 Sep MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,491 × 1,250; 346 KB
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1937 - Witt Motor Company - 13 Sep MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,490 × 1,423; 408 KB
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1948 - Twin City - Rhue Motors - 28 Feb MC - Allentown PA.jpg 511 × 1,086; 113 KB
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1953 - Twin City Motors - 8 Jul MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,726 × 2,759; 954 KB
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1958 - John Wood Motors - 28 Apr MC - Allentown PA.jpg 817 × 1,385; 219 KB
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1958 - John Wood Motors - 9 Oct MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,604 × 1,621; 432 KB
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1958 - Twin City Motors - 26 Mar MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,611 × 1,586; 270 KB
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1959 - John Wood Motors - 15 Oct MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,541 × 4,061; 1.26 MB
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1959 - John Wood Motors - 15 Oct MC 2 - Allentown PA.jpg 1,280 × 1,471; 288 KB
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1959 - John Wood Motors - 28 Jan MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,148 × 3,281; 800 KB
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1961 - C & G Lincoln Mercury - 27 Sep MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,041 × 3,321; 746 KB
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1961 - John Wood Motors - 25 Apr MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,167 × 3,234; 1.44 MB
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1961 - John Wood Motors - 5 Jul MC - Allentown PA.jpg 2,151 × 3,471; 1.23 MB