USMC Ford/Marmon-Herrington

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Bill Murray
As regards IHC taking over of the Ford MH business for the USMC, I have from BGEN USMC Fred Robillard himself a lot of the original file materiel of IHC's proposal to the USMC and a couple of sales prospectus binders with photos, data etc.

Bill, when time permits I'd like to learn more about the content of these files. I wonder if the Cargo and Personnel body as fitted to the Ford and IHC trucks was a USMC design? At least it seems it was designed to fulfull their specifications. Anything about that sort of information in those files?

For now, I leave you with a colour picture of a line-up of IHC M-2-4 1-ton cargo trucks:


Source: http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aam; also see http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aao, http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aan and http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aal