In 1941, Herbert Marx started the Marman Products Company, Inc. in Inglewood, CA. After starring in several Marx Brothers films as Zeppo (the straight man to his zany co-star siblings), his company assembled and marketed a motorcycle with a horizontally-opposed twin engine in 1948 and 1949.
Zeppo held many patents and developed products for the World War II effort before launching the Marman Twin. One such product was the Marman Clamp, a commonly used band clamp that achieved high-profile usage such as helping to secure the atomic bombs on the Enola Gay.
The Marman Twin’s engine was manufactured by Cleveland, Ohio-based Jack & Heintz Aircraft Company. The simultaneously-firing 2-stroke boxer weighs 30 pounds, cranks out 3.5 horsepower and was originally designed for target drone airplanes used in WWII.
There is space allotted in the chrome gas tank for a glovebox, which could carry the oil it required to mix with the 5 quarts of fuel it would hold. It employs a multi-plate, dry-disc clutch and could cruise around 35mph. The lightweight Schwinn MP97 frame was made specifically for the Marman Twin.
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