Marmon

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Marmon was a car brand of Nordyke Marmon & Company in Indianapolis ( Indiana ) from 1902 to 1924 and the Marmon Motor Car Company was produced from 1924 to 1933.

Marmon car

Marmon model 69 sedan 4 doors (1929)
Marmon Sixteen Sedan 4 doors (1933)

Marmon's parent company was founded in 1851 and manufactured milling technology. At the end of the 19th century, machines were also made for other areas. In 1902 a small production of automobile prototypes with air-cooled V2 engines began. An air-cooled four-cylinder V-engine came in the following year, and the first V6 and V8 engines were occupied for the next five years before turning to conventional in-line engines. The Marmons soon gained a reputation for being reliable, fast, and large cars.

From the model 32 of 1909 which was Wasp derived which in 1911 the first winner of the Indy 500 -Rennens. This car had one of the first rear-view mirrors in the world.

The Model 34 1916 had a six-cylinder in-line engine of aluminum, a material of this carriage also to the chassis to reduce was processed and body weight kg in order to be empty only 1495th A model 34 was used for a trip from coast to coast, and Erwin “Cannonball” Baker's record was spectacularly broken.

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

In 1929, Marmon introduced an in-line eight-cylinder car, named it Roosevelt, and marketed it under the Roosevelt brand , but Black Thursday of 1929 made the company's problems worse. Howard Marmon began work on the world's first V16 engine in 1927, but was not able to present the Sixteen series model until 1931 . As had Cadillac already introduced its V-16 by the former Marmon engineer Owen Nacker had been constructed. Also Peerless developed a V16 with the help of a former Marmon-designer, James Bohannon .

The Marmon Sixteen was only built for three years and 400 pieces were made. Its displacement was 8046 cm³ and it 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, in the worst years of the Great Depression , Marmon introduced the construction one of automobiles.

Ray Harroun's “Wasp”, winner of the 1911 Indy 500 race. You can see the rearview mirror of the car by the tension in front of the steering wheel.

Marmon is remembered as the inventor of the rearview mirror because of the introduction of the V16 engine and the use of aluminum in automobile construction.

Further use of the name Marmon as part of company names and brand names

Marmon stopped its own automobile production, but it manufactured components for other automobile companies, as well as trucks. When the Great Depression drastically reduced the luxury automobile market, the Marmon Car Company teamed up with Arthur (Colonel) Herrington , a former army engineer who was involved in the design of four-wheel drive vehicles. The new company was called Marmon-Herrington .

Marmon-Herrington got off to a successful start by receiving orders for aircraft tankers, four-wheel drive carts and the largest trucks of the day for the Iraqi oil pipeline operator. In addition, the management succeeded in establishing the company in the market for affordable all-wheel drive vehicles.

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

In the early 1960s, Marmon-Herrington was bought by the Pritzker family and became part of a group of companies that was named Marmon Group .

Models

model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase
Model a 1904 4 cyl. 20 bhp (14.7 kW) 2134 mm
Model B. 1905 4 cyl. 20 bhp (14.7 kW) 2286 mm
Model c 1906 4 cyl. 24 bhp (17.6 kW) 2286 mm
Model D 1906 4 cyl. 30 bhp (22 kW) 2286 mm
Model C-7 1907 4 cyl. 24 bhp (17.6 kW) 2438 mm
Model F 1907 4 cyl. 35 bhp (25.7 kW) 2642 mm
Model G 1908 4 cyl. 40 bhp (29 kW) 2642 mm
Model H. 1908 4 cyl. 50 bhp (37 kW) 2896 mm
Model 45 1909 4 cyl. 60 bhp (44 kW) 2997 mm
Model 50 1909 4 cyl. 60 bhp (44 kW) 2997 mm
Model 32 1909-1914 4 cyl. 32–40 bhp (23.5–29 kW) 2845-3048 mm
Model 48 1913-1915 6 cyl. 48 bhp (35.3 kW) 3683 mm
Model 41 1914-1916 6 cyl. 41–43 bhp (30–31.6 kW) 3353 mm
Model 34 1916-1924 6 cyl. 34–84 bhp (25–62 kW) 3454 mm
Model 74 1925-1926 6 cyl. 84 bhp (62 kW) 3454 mm
Little Marmon 1927 8 cyl. 64 bhp (47 kW) 3327 mm
Model 75 1927-1928 6 cyl. 84 bhp (62 kW) 3454 mm
Model 68 1928-1929 8 cyl. 42–76 bhp (31–56 kW) 2896 mm
Model 78 1928-1929 8 cyl. 86 bhp (63 kW) 3048 mm
Model 69 1930 8 cyl. 76 bhp (56 kW) 2997 mm
Model 79 1930 8 cyl. 107 bhp (79 kW) 3175 mm
Big 8 1930 8 cyl. 125 bhp (92 kW) 3454 mm
Model 70 1931 8 cyl. 84 bhp (62 kW) 2870 mm
Model 88 1931 8 cyl. 125 bhp (92 kW) 3302-3454 mm
Sixteen 1931-1933 16 cyl. 200 bhp (147 kW) 3683 mm
Model 8-125 1932 8 cyl. 125 bhp (92 kW) 3175 mm

literature

  • Beverly R. Kimes, Henry A. Clark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 .

Web links

Commons : Marmon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1309 (English).