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Marmon Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer founded by Howard Carpenter Marmon and owned by Nordyke Marmon & Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, US. It produced luxury automobiles from 1902 to 1933.
Marmon Holdings, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, comprises 11 industry groups, 30,000 team members, and more than 120 autonomous businesses with a total annual revenue of $12 billion. While Marmon's name comes from the maker of the first Indianapolis 500 winning car, our history begins in the 1950s withthe Pritzker brothers.
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Marmon Motor Company was a Texas -based manufacturer of heavy trucks from 1963 through 1997. History.
Model Family NameProduction YearsCab ConfigurationMarmon CHDTUndefined -1997Conventional Heavy Duty TractorMarmon 54-FUndefined -1997Conventional Fleet ShorthoodMarmon 54-PUndefined -1997Conventional Premium ShorthoodMarmon 54-FBUndefined -1997Conventional Fleet Short Butterfly HoodDec 15, 2017 · Although best known for the Wasp, there was a lot more to the Indiana automakers than their claim to fame as builders of the first Indianapolis 500-winning car in 1911. In fact, despite being shuttered since 1933, the Marmon Motor Car Company made headlines twice last week.
The Marmon Motor Car Company was established in 1902 by Howard Marmon. Small limited production of experimental automobiles began in 1902, with an air-cooled V-twin engine. An air-cooled V4 followed the next year, with pioneering V6 and V8 engines tried over the next few years, before more conventional straight engine designs were settled upon.
A model of automobile produced in Indianapolis, often called “the nearest American approximation to the Rolls-Royce,” the Marmon was produced by Marmon Motor Car Company, a division of Nordyke And Marmon Company on West Morris Street.
In 1902, Arthur designed and produced the company's first motor car which featured the first use of a pressure lubricated crankshaft and rod bearings. In 1911, the company produced the first Indianapolis 500 winner in Ray Harroun's Wasp. Arthur Marmon and his staff were leaders in automotive design pioneering.
