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http://www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/mnh/cushman.htm


17 posted on 08/31/2012 2:41:24 PM PDT by Western Phil
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Thanks Western Phil, I didn’t know this : ......”The Easy Manufacturing Company, owned by father and son John and Charles Ammon, merged with Cushman in 1934. The firm made farm implements in Lincoln and had previously purchased castings from Cushman.
In 1935 a youngster in search of spare parts brought a scooter to the Cushman plant. Powered by an old Cushman washing machine motor, the scooter intrigued owner Charles Ammon, who thought it might make an ideal product. The first Cushman motor scooter came out in 1936, and sales boomed.


21 posted on 08/31/2012 2:50:22 PM PDT by djone ( ------ instapundit.com--)
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