Mayor and Manager magazine reported in 1965 that the utility vehicles were used for refuse collection, curbside water meter reading, and mosquito control spraying.Cushman industrial vehicles were reportedly used to transport company executives and supervisors around a Volkswagen factory in Germany and they were a common sight in U.S.Thousands of communities used the three-wheelers for traffic control and other law enforcement duties, including security guards at airports, docks, shopping centers, and industrial sites.Meter Maids, dating from the 1950s, used Cushman vehicles in their parking enforcement rounds.Welding Journal reported in 1965 that the New York Central railroad used the 50-inch wide Trucksters as mobile welding units in Chicago, making repairs to passenger coaches.The little vehicles, it seemed, were everywhere: The small, fuel-efficient models filled an important niche in their operations. The Truckster industrial version of the three-wheeled-and later four-wheeled-vehicles were used in dozens of industries. Stan TalleyР”В¬onversion of the old foundry into a vehicle assembly area, 1950s. So therefore, they weren't interested in a foundry. They were deeply into cast aluminum, die-cast aluminum. They said we were going to an aluminum die-cast engine, and it is more profitable to make that die-cast engine than our old cast iron engine. In 1961, OMC closed the foundry and installed new assembly lines where the foundry had been. OMC believed this product line complemented its other operations.

Cushman was then making two-and three-wheeled vehicles, powered by electric or internal combustion engines, for use in business, industry, and recreation. When Outboard Marine added Cushman to its stable of subsidiaries, its product lines included Lawn Boy mowers and lawn maintenance equipment and Pioneer chain saws, in addition to its marine engines.

Outboard Marine, was a corporate descendant of a small, turn-of-the-century boat engine builder named Ole Evinrude, son of a Norwegian immigrant farmer, who grew up in Wisconsin and loved tinkering with the then-new internal combustion engines. Outboard Marine Corporation ( OMC), best known for its Evinrude and Johnson brands of boat engines, acquired Cushman from the Ammon family in 1957. It seemed like a good deal when Outboard Marine bought Cushman.There were some benefits that started to come in that we had never had before. Cushman Centennial, Cushman Joins the Outboard Marine Family

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