Arthur William Sidney Herrington
- Born:
- March 30, 1891, Coddenham, East Suffolk, Eng.
- Died:
- Sept. 6, 1970, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S. (aged 79)
Arthur William Sidney Herrington (born March 30, 1891, Coddenham, East Suffolk, Eng.—died Sept. 6, 1970, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.) was an American engineer and manufacturer who developed a series of military vehicles that were used during World War II.
Immigrating to the United States with his family at the age of five from England, Herrington grew up in Madison, New Jersey, and was educated at the Stevens Preparatory School and Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. He was first employed by the Harley-Davidson Motor Company of Milwaukee. After World War I he was given a reserve commission in the Army and was retained as a consultant while returning to his civilian occupation.
In France, Herrington had been impressed by the problems of conventional-drive vehicles in off-the-road maneuvering. He experimented with and designed a series of trucks with four- and six-wheel drives, which he built in association with the Marmon Motor Car Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. These vehicles aided Allied troops during World War II.
Herrington served during World War II as technical adviser to the American Mission to India and as director of the American Medical Center for Burma.