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The Marmon-Herrington Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of axles and transfer cases for trucks and other vehicles. [1] Earlier, the company built military vehicles and some tanks during World War II, and until the late 1950s or early 1960s was a manufacturer of trucks and trolley buses.
The Marmon–Herrington armoured car was a series of armoured vehicles that were produced in South Africa and adopted by the British Army during World War II.They were also issued to RAF armoured car companies, which seem never to have used them in action, making greater use of Rolls-Royce armoured cars and other types.
Marmon-Herrington conversion units were installed into Ford trucks in the late 1930s, but it was an expensive and time-consuming effort resulting in few conversions. 1939-1945 War Effort [ edit ]
Previously a conversion outsourced to Marmon-Herrington, Ford was the first of the "big three" U.S. manufacturers to manufacture four-wheel drive trucks on its own. Models: F-100 (F10, F11, F14) : 1/2 ton (4,000–5,000 GVWR max)
Marmon-Herrington CTLS (few diverted from Dutch after the fall of Java) AMR 35; ... Panzer II (1,856, excluding conversions) Panzer 35(t) (Czechoslovakian design, 434)
Light-duty off-roaders were a very small niche-market, only filled by after-market conversions, primarily by Marmon-Herrington. [28] By June 1940 the Q.C. had tested and approved its first three standard commercial based, all-wheel drive trucks: the 1 1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x4 Dodge, the GMC 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6x6 and a Mack 6-ton 6x6. [29]
The Dingo was based on a commercial Ford 30-cwt, 134.5 inch wheelbase chassis, shortened to 110 inches and fitted with a Marmon-Herrington all wheel drive kit, to give the vehicle four wheel drive. [1] It was powered by either an 85 hp or 95 hp Ford V8 engine.
The new company was called Marmon-Herrington. In the early 1960s, Marmon-Herrington was purchased by the Pritzker family and became a member of an association of companies which eventually adopted the name The Marmon Group. In 2007, the Pritzker family sold a major part of the Group to Warren Buffett's firm Berkshire Hathaway. [10]