In the 1930s, when Marmon-Herrington had found that in addition to specialty vehicles there was a growing market for moderately priced all-wheel drive vehicles, they started to co-operate with Ford Motor Co. Large numbers of commercial Ford truck chassis were converted with Marmon-Herrington's All-Wheel Drive Conversion kits.
These Ford/Marmon-Herrington trucks were bought in massive numbers by the military around the world. A large number of countries bought the all-wheel drive chassis or chassis/cabs and suited them for their own needs.