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Cushman produced engines for farm equipment, pumps, lawn mowers, and boats. Cushman began making Auto-Glide scooters in 1936 as a means to increase the sale of Husky engines during the Great Depression. [3] Cushman scooters were widely used by the United States Armed Forces in World War II and as an alternative to automobiles before and after ...
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Logo used for the Jacobsen 4-Acre mower. In 1945 Jacobsen Manufacturing purchased the Worthington Mower Company of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, known for its gang mowers for golf courses, parks and airfields. [2] In 1949 the new subsidiary began making Model G tractors using Ford tractor components, mostly for use in parks and golf courses. [3]
The Westcoaster Mailster was a small three-wheeled vehicle used for mail delivery by the United States Post Office Department during the 1950s and 60s. They could haul 500 pounds of mail, including large parcels, versus the 35-pound limit of a foot carrier, and once represented one-third of the delivery vehicles used by the Post Office.
Truck Night in America (known outside of the US as Monster Motor Challenge) is a History Channel program that debuted in 2018. [ 2 ] The show features five contestants per episode competing through a series of races with eliminations after each event.
In 1953 the Cheston L. Eshelman Company, which had produced light aircraft immediately after World War II and then pleasure boats (including the spectacular "Rocket Boat", built from surplus military aircraft wing tanks), lightweight garden tractors and other implements, began producing a tiny air-cooled, one-cylinder automobile, the "Sport Car", in two versions: a basic $295 15 MPH "Child's ...
A 1970s Mack R-600 truck with a "coolpower" engine setup is used to haul an oil tanker in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Mack DM series dump trucks appeared prominently in Die Hard with a Vengeance (the third movie in the series). A 1980s video for the Bananarama song "Cruel Summer" prominently features a red Mack truck. [58]
The New York City Police Department vehicle fleet consists of 9,624 police cars, 11 boats, eight helicopters, and numerous other vehicles. Liveries The colors of NYPD vehicles are usually an all-white body with two blue stripes along each side. The word "POLICE" is printed in small text above the front wheel wells, and as "NYPD Police" above the front grille. The NYPD patch is emblazoned on ...