The Marmon company was, like a number of auto manufacturers,
in severe financial trouble at the beginning of the thirties. Previously, the
automotive arm of Nordyke and Marmon had prospered moderately. Their first cars
were air-cooled. These were followed by more conventional water-cooled fours
and sixes, and the firm enjoyed a string of early racing successes, most
notably in the 1911 Indianapolis
500.
For 1916, Howard Marmon and Alanson P. Brush created the
benchmark Marmon 34. A standout design, it ranked alongside the first Cadillac
V-8, Packard's Twin Six, Peerless's V-8, and the Hudson Super Six as the
flowering of engineering maturity in American automobiles.
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