Marmon Motor Company was a

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-based manufacturer of exclusive

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s from 1963 through 1997.

History

In 1963, after

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, the successor to the

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, ceased truck production, a new company, Marmon Motor Company of Denton,

, purchased and revived the Marmon brand to build and sell premium truck designs that Marmon-Herrington had been planning. The Marmon truck was a low-production, handmade truck sometimes dubbed ''the

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of trucks''. An overcrowded American truck industry and the lack of a nationwide sales network led to the eventual failure of Marmon trucks in the USA. The last Marmon was made in 1997, and the production facilities in

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, were taken over by

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’s Paystar division.

Models

Models of Marmon trucks over the decades have included:

Gallery

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External links

Marmon trucks

Marmon Group Home page
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