Raymond H Dietrich Packard Sport Phaeton Concept

by Jack Pumphrey

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Raymond H Dietrich Packard Sport Phaeton Concept

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Jack Pumphrey

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Painting - Watercolor

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Early 1930s conceptual design of the Victoria Roadster, Raymond H. Dietrich was an American coach builder ( 1894-1980), co-founder of Le Baron and a close friend to Edsel Ford, Dietrich himself held 50% of the stock in Dietrich, Inc. and did substantial styling work for standard bodies for Packard, Franklin, Studebaker and Lincoln (then headed by Edsel Ford) and Packard. Raymond Dietrich was a design consultant with Packard with most of Packard designs attributed to him.Dietrich Inc. was an American coachbuilder founded in 1925 by Raymond H. Dietrich ( 1894-1980), co-founder of LeBaron Incorporated in New York, he was a close friend to Edsel Ford who supported him by talking Fred Murray, owner of the Murray Body Corporation into partly financing the venture, 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. Dietrich himself held 50% of the stock, Dietrich, Inc. did substantial styling work for standard bodies for Packard, Franklin, and Erskine, a corporate make of Studebaker; Lincoln (then headed by Edsel Ford) or Packard. Raymond Dietrich further was a design consultant with Packard.

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