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2 unusual facts about Marmon-Herrington


Marmon

Marmon-Herrington, the successor company to the Marmon Motor Car Company.

Wainuiomata

In 1946 the brigade took delivery of its first "real" fire engine, a Ford V8 Marmon-Herrington 4-wheel-drive.


Bernard F. Dickmann

In 1949, while serving as Postmaster of St. Louis, Dickmann married Beulah Pat Herrington, the Postmistress of Mount Olive, Mississippi.

Davy lamp

(Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813. The more cumbersome Clanny safety lamp was successfully tested at Herrington Mill and he too won medals, from the Royal Society of Arts).

Herron School of Art and Design

Caroline Marmon Fesler: The daughter of local industrialist and automobile manufacturer Daniel Marmon (Ray Harroun drove a Marmon car to victory in the first Indianapolis 500 race in 1911), she studied painting in Europe.

Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane

The Marmon was fitted with railroad wheels, and an unused spur of the Long Island Rail Road, four miles (6 km) east of Farmingdale, New York was put back into service.

Hyflux

Partners include the National University of Singapore, CEPAration BV (a spin-off from leading Dutch technology institute, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), Marmon Water LLC (North America’s largest manufacturer of residential and commercial water treatment systems) and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China.

Lee Marmon

In May and June 2006, a collection of Marmon's best-known images was on display at the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Marguerite De La Motte

In the 1930s when Roberts moved to Los Angeles he was Marguerite's houseguest and drove her Marmon convertible car.

Marmon

Marmon Motor Company, a defunct Texas-based manufacturer of premium trucks.

Nordyke Marmon & Company, a US manufacturer of flour mills until the 1920s.

Marmon Motor Car Company

Actor Francis X. Bushman, at the height of his movie fame in the 1910s owned a custom built purple painted Marmon.

J. Horace McFarland, president of the American Civic Association, owned a Marmon.

Statesman and national hero of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's representational car was a Marmon E-75.

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car

Final assembly was done by the local branch of the Dorman Long company among others

Modern Groove Syndicate

Members include Daniel Clarke – keyboard (who has toured with Mandy Moore and k.d. lang), Joel DeNunzio - drums, Todd Herrington - bass, JC Kuhl – sax (former member of Agents of Good Roots), and Trey Pollard - guitar

Neale Marmon

Post full-time football, Marmon, works for a sports article manufacturer, living alternately in London and Merzig, Germany.

Marmon returned to Germany in 1991, spending a further two seasons in the German second division, now with FC 08 Homburg.

Rolls-Royce – Bentley L Series V8 engine

United States firm Marmon developed the first engine of V8 configuration in 1904, though it was experimental and did not find its way into a passenger vehicle.

William Reid Clanny

In 1812 the Felling mine disaster and later in the year the explosion at Mill Pit in Herrington near Sunderland concentrated minds on the problems of underground lighting.


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