The historic open wheel Marmon Wasp race car of the early 20th century was the first to use a single-seater "monoposto" construction layout.

[citation needed] Marmon's parent company was founded in 1851, manufacturing flour grinding mill equipment and branching out into other machinery through the late 19th century.

[3] It used a 573 in3 (9,382 cc) (4½×6-inch, 114×152 mm) T-head straight-six engine of between 48 and 80 hp (36 and 60 kW)[3] with dual-plug ignition[4] and electric starter.

Plant 3 was a five-story structure measuring 80 x 600 feet parallel to Morris Street (now Eli Lilly & Company Building 314).

In the early 1960s, Marmon-Herrington was purchased by the Pritzker family and became a member of an association of companies which eventually adopted the name The Marmon Group.

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

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

It is still the representational car of the Aalto University student union after considerable repairs,[9] and the name Marmon, to some extent, is coupled to this specific vehicle.

In 1924, he wrote to John Gries of the National Bureau of Standards' Division of Building and Housing that his Marmon cost nine cents a mile to operate, "independent of the chauffeur.

[citation needed] Actress Bebe Daniels was driving a Marmon Roadster 72 miles per hour south of Santa Ana when she became the first woman to be convicted of speeding in Orange County.