![]() ![]() In 1948, the Government of Quebec passed a law requiring all roads to be cleared of snow Bombardier's sales fell by nearly half in one year. ![]() In 1947, during a blizzard in Saskatchewan, the company received positive press coverage when army snowmobiles resupplied isolated radio communication towers. The company then shifted its focus to the arms industry. Bombardier customers had to prove that snowmobiles were essential to their livelihood in order to buy one. ĭuring World War II, the Government of Canada issued wartime rationing regulations. In 1942, L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée ("Bombardier Snow Car Limited") was founded in Valcourt. In 1941, Bombardier opened a factory in Valcourt. They were used in rural Quebec to take children to school, carry freight, deliver mail, and as ambulances. In 1937, he patented and sold 12 of the 7-passenger "B7" snow coaches. In 1935, in a repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec, he designed and produced the first snowmobile using a drive system he developed that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions. īombardier was a mechanic who dreamed of building a vehicle that could "float on snow". In January 1934, a blizzard prevented Joseph-Armand Bombardier from reaching the nearest hospital in time to save his two-year-old son, Yvon, who died from appendicitis complicated by peritonitis. The Ski-Doo was ranked 17th place on CBC Television's The Greatest Canadian Invention in 2007. īRP's products include the Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Can-Am ATVs and Can-Am motorcycles, Sea-Doo personal watercraft, and Rotax engines. The company's products are sold in more than 100 countries, some of which have their own direct-sales network. BRP has manufacturing facilities in five countries: Canada, the United States (Wisconsin, Illinois, North Carolina, Arkansas, Michigan and Minnesota), Mexico, Finland, and Austria. Bombardier Inc., was founded in 1942 as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée (Bombardier Snowmobile Limited) by Joseph-Armand Bombardier at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.Īs of Octo, BRP had about 5,500 employees its revenues in 2007 were above US$2.5 billion. was spun-off and sold to a group of investors consisting of Bain Capital, the Bombardier-Beaudoin family and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. It was founded in 2003, when the Recreational Products Division of Bombardier Inc. is the holding company for Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., operating as BRP, a Canadian manufacturer of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, side by sides, motorcycles, and personal watercraft. Canada, United States, Mexico, Finland, and AustriaīRP Inc.
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