To: Victor
Correct. Bombardier purchased LearJet over a decade ago. Incidentally, Bombardier also makes SeaDoo Personal watercraft and snowmobiles, and are currently trying to sell the recreational products division at this time to raise cash to build it's aerospace business. Bombardier also bought OMC (Outboard Marine Corporation) of Johnson and Evinrude fame in 2001. Offers are supposedly being considered by John Deere and Harley Davidson to buy the recreational products division (which includes SeaDoo, OMC, and Austrian engine maker Rotax) from Bombardier at this time. Bombardier is obviously staking it's future on it's core business of airplanes.
21 posted on
05/13/2003 12:21:08 PM PDT by
Space Wrangler
(Now I know what it's like washing windows when you know that there are pigeons on the roof...)
To: Space Wrangler
Bombardier also builds metro type railway systems (subways, etc.)
If I'm not mistaken, they built the monorail system in use at Newark airport.
Pretty diverse company with a lot of interesting products.
23 posted on
05/13/2003 12:36:09 PM PDT by
Victor
To: Space Wrangler
My motorcycle (a BMW F650) has a Rotax 650cc (made in Austria but Bombardier bought them out) - one hell of an engine, designed for motorcycles, ski-mobiles, water jets, and ultralight aircraft. rock solid engine.
33 posted on
05/13/2003 1:11:22 PM PDT by
chilepepper
(Clever argument cannot convince Reality -- Carl Jung)
To: Space Wrangler
Bombardier also makes SeaDoo Personal watercraft and snowmobiles, and are currently trying to sell the recreational products division at this time to raise cash to build it's aerospace business.I thought it rather ironic that they're getting out the recreational market. The company was founded by Armand Bombardier, inventor of the snowmobile.
43 posted on
05/13/2003 1:28:25 PM PDT by
Squawk 8888
(Everyone knows you can't have a successful conspiracy without a Rockefeller)
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