52 coe marmon herrington
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52 coe marmon herrington
hello all i was wondering if there is a way to tell how my 52 coe marmon herrington came from the factory.with a flatbed or what. Also i was wondering if the mirror window in the roof could be original or not.
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Chad - I'd suspect that the truck was first sourced as a cab and chassis then fitted at a specialty shop with the bed, winch, mirror/window, etc. This application looks so unique to the job it was asked to do that I doubt the factory would have done it. Good luck finding the bare cab and dog house. I'll keep my eyes open for you. Stu
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Stu,
I wonder if this truck could have had some kind of untily box on it. Remember the line truck that 48fordcoe posted back in November?
This truck also was a M-H and had the cab mount mirror. I can't see a reason for the COE to have the roof mounted mirror with a flatbed. I don't have an idea why the line truck needed the mirror but I have seen them on other line truck type trucks. Maybe they had to keep an eye on someone in a boom while they were operating the PTO to raise or lower something.
I would guess that someone bought this truck, removed the box and installed the flatbed.
I wonder if this truck could have had some kind of untily box on it. Remember the line truck that 48fordcoe posted back in November?
This truck also was a M-H and had the cab mount mirror. I can't see a reason for the COE to have the roof mounted mirror with a flatbed. I don't have an idea why the line truck needed the mirror but I have seen them on other line truck type trucks. Maybe they had to keep an eye on someone in a boom while they were operating the PTO to raise or lower something.
I would guess that someone bought this truck, removed the box and installed the flatbed.
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I went through the 1952 Hildy's Blue Book and found the exact utility body that's on the truck in Bob's picture. It's a Powers American made by the McCabe-Powers Auto Body Company out of St.Louis. I also found a bed that looks like the one on Chad's truck. It's a Hobbs Oil Field Body made by Hobbs Manufacturing Company. Maybe Chad's F-6 started life in the Pennsylvania oil fields. Neither of the pictures in Hildy's shows the roof windows. That was probably a separate option.
As I paged through the book, there were several companies that displayed their equipment on Marmon-Herrington equipped chassis. Many of the ads listed their regional service/installation facilities. So that fits what I said above. Likely the trucks were first shipped from the Ford plant (Highland Park, Louisville, Chicago) to Indianapolis for the M-H conversion, then secondarily shipped to the company that did the bed and cab mirror/window installations, then finally to the dealer for customer delivery. Stu
As I paged through the book, there were several companies that displayed their equipment on Marmon-Herrington equipped chassis. Many of the ads listed their regional service/installation facilities. So that fits what I said above. Likely the trucks were first shipped from the Ford plant (Highland Park, Louisville, Chicago) to Indianapolis for the M-H conversion, then secondarily shipped to the company that did the bed and cab mirror/window installations, then finally to the dealer for customer delivery. Stu
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