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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 construction of the vehicle was developed in competition by Marmon-Herrington and Ford Motor Company. Marmon-Herrington specialized in all-wheel-drive vehicles. [2] The Marmon-Herrington prototype's hull formed an integral unibody structure, created by cutting shapes out of steel sheet and welding those together.
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]
Ford introduced the option of the F-Series in four-wheel drive. 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) F-100 (F18, F19)(4×4): 1/2 ton (4,000–5,600 GVWR max)
Marmon Class 8 Trucks Model Family Name Production Years Cab Configuration Notes Marmon CHDT: Undefined-1997 Conventional Heavy Duty Tractor: Marmon 54-F: Undefined-1997 Conventional Fleet Shorthood: Marmon 54-P: Undefined-1997 Conventional Premium Shorthood: Marmon 54-FB: Undefined-1997 Conventional Fleet Short Butterfly Hood: Marmon 57-F ...
Designed and first manufactured by International Harvester, later Kenworth and Marmon-Herrington also built them. The official model number was 542, to which are added a prefix letter designating the manufacturer of the engine (thus 'H' from Harvester) and a suffix number relating to the tire size. The M426 was a heavier duty evolution of the M425.
The Marmon Herrington Mk-IVF's in service with the National Guard during 1974 were likely to be some of the very last of their type to see main deployment in battle, anywhere in the world (a situation similar to the Daimler Dingo's and M8 Greyhounds) - evidence of a modern war fought with vintage weapons by a Commonwealth country, where ...
Marmon-Herrington CTLS [93] M1 combat car- 113 built [94] M2 light tank (World War II, 10 M2A1, 239 M2A2, 72 M2A3, 375 M2A4) [95] M3 Stuart tank [95] M5 Stuart tank [95] M22 Locust light airborne tank [96] M24 Chaffee [96] M41 Walker Bulldog; M551 Sheridan light airborne tank; M8 armored gun system; M132 armored flamethrower; M901 Improved TOW ...