Marmon 88 1931

Marmon 88 1931

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

Marmon Cars

The parent company of Marmon was founded in 1851 and established the technology mill. End of the 19th century, the machines to other areas did. 1902 began a small production of prototype cars with V-2 air-cooled engines. A four-cylinder V-engine air-cooled came in the following year, and the next five years has focused its attention on the early V6 engines and V8, before moving on to the conventional engines in line. Soon The Marmon had gained a reputation as a car reliable, fast and great.

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

The model 34 of 1916 had a six-cylinder engine in line of aluminum, a material of this car is also on the chassis to reduce the body was processed and its empty weight 1.495 kg only. With a model of 34 a journey from coast to coast took place, the record of Erwin "Cannonball" Baker was spectacularly broken.

1924 gave rise to new models to replace the model of the whole life of 34 years, but the company got into financial difficulties and in 1926 transferred to the Marmon Motor Car Company.

1929 Marmon introduced a car with eight-cylinder in-line at a lower price than 1.000, - US $ and called Roosevelt , but the Black Thursday of 1929 aggravated the problems of the company. 1927 Howard Marmon had begun his work on the first engine V16 in the world, but could not until 1931 to introduce the production model sixteen. As I had a Cadillac already introduced their V-16, which had been built by the former engineer of Marmon Owen Nacker. Also Peerless developed a V16 with the help of a former Marmon designer, James Bohannon.

The Marmon Sixteen was built in just three years and created 400 pieces. Its capacity was 8.046 cm ³ and that made 200 HP (147 kW). The engine had a block and aluminum cylinder heads of aluminum; and the liners were made of steel and an angle of cylinders was 45 °.

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

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

Although Marmon automobile production of its own, but it turned out components to other car companies, as well as trucks, ago. As the global economic crisis reduced the luxury car market in a spectacular way, the Car Company Marmon associated with Arthur (Colonel) Herrington, an ex-engineer of the army who participated in the construction of four-wheeled vehicles. The new company was called Marmon-Herrington .

Marmon-Herrington began with success from you orders for the supply of fuel to jet-propelled drones with guns of four-wheel-drive and most of the time for the iraqi landed operator of the pipeline. Also achieved in the management, the establishment of the company in the market-wheel-drive vehicles from low cost.

This gave rise to the Marmon-Herrington Ford. The conversion of chassis of trucks in all-wheel drive remains the main objective business of Marmon-Herrington Company.

In the early 1960s, Marmon-Herrington was of the family of Pritzker purchased and was part of a group of companies, which is the name Marmon Group announced.

Models

Marmon Trucks

In 1963, when Marmon-Herrington had abandoned the manufacture of trucks, took a new company, the Marmon Motors Co. in Denton (Texas) the name and built for the trucks that had been built in the Marmon-Herrington. These trucks were of exceptional quality and appeal to owners who drove their own vehicles; they were the tip of the production of trucks in Texas.

The Marmon was always a truck made-in-hand with low numbers of production, which was sometimes nicknamed "the Rolls-Royce of trucks". The wide range in the market of trucks and the lack of network sales sealed at the end of the truck Marmon in the united States. The last Marmon was founded in 1997 and works in Garland (Texas) took charge of the Department of Paystar Navistar International .

1996, it had been an attempt made in Australia to produce trucks under the name of Max Marmon. Obviously made a few copies.