Marmon Motor Car Company

Marmon was an automobile brand that was manufactured by Nordyke Marmon & Company of Indianapolis ( Indiana) 1902-1933. From 1963 to 1997 trucks in Texas were manufactured under this name.

Marmon Automobiles

The parent company of Marmon was founded in 1851 and established mill technology. End of the 19th century, machines for other areas made ​​it. 1902 started a small production of automotive prototype air-cooled V-2 engines. An air-cooled four-cylinder V-engine came in the following year, and the next five years focused its attention on the first V6 and V8 engines, before turning to conventional in-line engines. The Marmon had soon acquired a reputation as a reliable, fast and big cars.

From the Model 32 from the year 1909, the Wasp was derived, the first winner of the Indy 500 race. This car had the first rear-view mirror of the world.

The model 34 from 1916 had to cut a six-cylinder in-line engine made ​​of aluminum, a material that has been processed in this car also chassis and body be empty weight only 1495 kg. With a model 34 a ride from coast to coast was carried out, with the record of Erwin " Cannonball" Baker was spectacularly broken.

1924 led to new models to replace the long-lived Model 34, but the company ran into financial difficulties and in 1926 transferred to the Marmon Motor Car Co..

1929 Marmon introduced a car with an eight-cylinder in-line engine at a price under $ 1000, - U.S. $ and called him Roosevelt, but the Black Thursday of 1929 exacerbated the company's problems. 1927 Howard Marmon had begun his work on the first V16 engine in the world, but until 1931 could imagine the production model Sixteen. Since Cadillac had already introduced their V-16, which had been constructed by the former Marmon engineer Owen Nacker. Peerless also developed a V16 with help of a former Marmon - designer, James Bohannon.

The Marmon Sixteen was built only three years and it originated 400 pieces. Its engine capacity was 8,046 cm3 and he made 200 bhp (147 kW). The engine had an aluminum block and cylinder heads made of aluminum; the liners were made ​​of steel and the cylinder angle was 45 °.

1933, the worst year of the Great Depression, Marmon introduced the construction of automobiles one.

Marmon remains as the inventor of the rearview mirror, because of the introduction of the V16 engine and the use of aluminum in automotive remembered.

Although presented Marmon 's own automobile production, but it turned components for other auto companies, as well as trucks, ago. When the world economic crisis reduced the market for luxury automobiles drastically, the Marmon Car Company joined forces with Arthur ( Colonel) Herrington, a former army engineer who was involved in the construction of four-wheel vehicles. The new company was called Marmon - Herrington.

Marmon - Herrington began successfully since you landed orders for aircraft refueling vehicles, mobile guns with all-wheel drive and the biggest truck of the time for the Iraqi company operating the oil pipeline. Moreover, it succeeded the Board, to establish the company in the market for low-priced four-wheel vehicles.

This gave birth to the Marmon - Herrington Ford. The conversion of truck chassis on four-wheel drive is still the main business purpose of Marmon - Herrington Company.

In the early 1960s, Marmon - Herrington was purchased by the Pritzker family and became part of a group of companies, which they gave the name Marmon Group.

Models

1963 when Marmon - Herrington had abandoned the truck manufacturing, took on a new company that Marmon Motors Co. in Denton (Texas ) the name and built according to the trucks that had been constructed at Marmon Herrington. These trucks were of special quality and appealed to owners who drove their vehicles themselves; they were the tip of the Texas truck production.

The Marmon was always a handmade truck with low production numbers, which was sometimes dubbed "the Rolls- Royce of trucks ." The big deal on the truck market and the lack of sales network sealed the end of the Marmon trucks in the United States. The last Marmon was formed in 1997 and works in Garland (Texas ) took over the Paystar Department of Navistar International.

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