1949 Deliveral

         These trucks were built and sold by Marmon-Harrington for about five years. Their plan was to build 5,000 units. The total production was 2,000 units or less.

         The power train for these units was a front mounted 4-cylinder Willys engine with front wheel drive. The complete front-end power unit was built on a "quick removable dolly". The dolly unit was from the windshield down and from one side door frame around the front to the other side door frame.

         The whole floor was low and flat. This allowed the driver to haul more of a payload and/or larger items that wouldn't fit into trucks with a higher floor. This also could be a negative to the total overall use. One thing would be the over loading of the rear axle because of all the space to place the cargo. This would take the weight off of the front axle and there would be lack of traction on the front axle when driving in snow.

         The flat floor design was possible because there was no rear axle assembly. The rear wheels were mounted on big and strong spindles that were mounted to the side of the frame and a spring assembly that consisted of two separate spring suspension systems. One was mounted high and the other one was mounted low with the wheel spindle mounted between the two springs.

         This "stand & drive" truck, compared to all other "stand & drive trucks", was the hardest truck to learn how to drive. Only five units are known to exist. I own three of these trucks. I'm hoping to be able to have two of the trucks fixed up to show sometime in the future.