![]() ![]() Turns out the gizmos are perfect for joining flexible aircraft fuel lines. Not too different from those screw-on clamps you use to repair a garden hose, but with several improvements. ![]() Scene 2: As Zeppo’s business grows, he meets a starving inventor (“A terrible looking man holes in his shoes!” Marx recalled in Hello, I Must Be Going by Charlotte Chandler.) The innovator has a new kind of aircraft clamp he wants someone to market. Work commences at one in the morning, after Zeppo’s show business duties. Inventory (in cardboard boxes) is piled on the dining room table. “We’re very shy of machine shops and machinists,” the Douglas Aircraft man confides, “and I hear you have your own shop.” Before you know it, Zeppo is machining parts for DC-3s at his lathe in the family garage. Scene 1: Zeppo, who was handy with tools, meets an aircraft executive at the racetrack. Yet perhaps befitting its origins, his story of aviation success plays like a Marx Brothers movie. You may not remember Zeppo he appeared in only five of the brothers’ feature films. Chico Marx, A Night at the Opera (1935)Īside from punchlines, what did the Marx Brothers have to do with aviation? Consider Marman Products, an aerospace manufacturing firm founded by Herbert (Zeppo) Marx in 1941. The first time we started, we get halfway across when we run out of gasoline and we gotta go back.” ![]()
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