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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.
Cincinnati Street Railway Marmon-Herrington TC44 trolleybus #1300, photographed as new in 1947 Trolleybus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Boston trolleybus system A dual-mode bus operating as a trolleybus in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, in 1990 San Francisco Muni ETI 15TrSF trolleybus #7108, on Van Ness Avenue at Geary Street, in 2004
In 1934, the Nairns introduced two Marmon-Herrington buses specially adapted for them which had 18 tyres and two passenger levels. The Nairn's archetypal vehicle was the "Pullman" bus, introduced in 1937, and built using different companies' components to their design. The Pullmans were single-level but air-conditioned with refreshment facilities.
Students in Louisville's public school district will return to class starting Friday as part of a staggered reopening that stretches into next week, as administrators reboot a new bus schedule ...
As with most American cities, transportation in Louisville, Kentucky, is based primarily on automobiles. However, the city traces its foundation to the era where the river was the primary means of transportation , and railroads have been an important part of local industry for over a century.
TARC operates buses which serve the Louisville area. The company claims over 7,000 bus stops, although only about 200 have benches and rain shelters; the rest simply have a sign indicating that the location is a bus stop. [20] The stops are served by 29 weekday and weekend routes, and four express routes with weekday service only.
It was established in 1902 but not incorporated as the successor of Nordyke Marmon & Company until 1926. In 1933 it was succeeded by Marmon-Herrington and in 1964 the Marmon brand name was sold to the Marmon Motor Company of Denton, Texas. Marmon-Herrington became the Marmon Group of Chicago, in 1964.
They were the system's first air-conditioned trolley buses. The last active Brill and Marmon-Herrington trolley buses were retired in 1981. [8] Because of service reductions in the 1980s and 1990s, the number of trolley buses needed for scheduled peak-period service on the five routes had declined to only 51 (plus spares) by at least the mid ...