Marathon Motor Works (USA)

Marathon Motor Works was an early automobile manufacturer based in Tennessee. It grew out of an earlier company called Southern Engine and Boiler Works founded in 1889 which made industrial engines and boilers in Jackson, Tennessee. As such, the firm had metal-working and power plant experience which could easily be transferred into the then-new and rapidly expanding automobile industry. It turned its attention in this direction shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. From 1907 to 1914, the company manufactured the Marathon automobile.

Success could not overcome the incompetence of its officers and the company went bankrupt in 1914. It tried to fight the bankruptcy, but failed. At years end, Herff-Brooks of Indianapolis, IN. distributors and stockholders in the company took over.

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Marathon Motor Works was an early automobile manufacturer based in Tennessee. It grew out of an earlier company called Southern Engine and Boiler Works founded in 1889 which made industrial engines and boilers in Jackson, Tennessee. As such, the firm had metal-working and power plant experience which could easily be transferred into the then-new and rapidly expanding automobile industry. It turned its attention in this direction shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. From 1907 to 1914, the company manufactured the Marathon automobile.

Success could not overcome the incompetence of its officers and the company went bankrupt in 1914. It tried to fight the bankruptcy, but failed. At years end, Herff-Brooks of Indianapolis, IN. distributors and stockholders in the company took over.

Subject ID: 1618

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