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	Joseph-Armand Bombardier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Joseph-Armand Bombardier (April 16, 1907 - February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman, who invented the snowmobile and was the founder of Bombardier.
		Bombardier was largely self-taught, picking up mechanical engineering by fixing things, reading, and taking notes.
		In 2000, Joseph-Armand Bombardier was honoured by the government of Canada with his image on a postage stamp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph-Armand_Bombardier (628 words)

	Bombardier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Joseph had the ability to overcome great odds in his life to develop a company that laid a solid foundation for the creation of a transportation giant.
		Bombardier became a leading manufacturer of (additional info and facts about business jets) business jets, (additional info and facts about regional aircraft) regional aircraft, and (Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive) trains.
		Bombardier acquired the assets and designs of (additional info and facts about American Locomotive Company) American Locomotive Company/ (additional info and facts about Montreal Locomotive Works) Montreal Locomotive Works who continued in the (A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks) locomotive business until 1985.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bombardier.htm (2099 words)

	Bombardier Inc
		BOMBARDIER, inventor of the SNOWMOBILE; in 1975 it purchased majority interest in MLW-Worthington Limited (founded in 1902) and, after financial consolidation in 1976, the present name was adopted in 1978.
		Bombardier was successful in August 1986 in taking over CANADAIR LTD, the troubled aircraft company, for $120 million.
		In April 1990 Bombardier acquired the bankrupt Lear Jet Corp, and then took over half of DE HAVILLAND in March 1992 acquiring the remainder in 1997.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTA0000856 (271 words)

	Bombardier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bombardier, born on April 16, 1907, was the son of a prosperous farmer from the small community of Valcourt, east of Montreal near Sherbrooke, Quebec.
		Bombardier removed the motor and attached it to the framework of a typical four-passenger sleigh — the usual mode of transportation for French-Canadian families during Quebec’s severe winters.
		Bombardier was an unusual man — a visionary with a big dream — who turned down repeated offers to sell his company to large American corporations.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/224-227.htm (1042 words)

	Bombardier Traxter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bombardier is the parent company of Rotax motors.
		Joseph-Armand Bombardier, The Man Born in Valcourt in 1907, Joseph-Armand Bombardier was the eldest of eight children born to Anna Gravel and Alfred Bombardier, a farmer turned general merchant.
		In 1937, years of research culminated in the production of a seven-passenger vehicle, the B-7, and in the patenting of the sprocket wheel/track system which would later be used in most of the subsequently produced vehicles.
	www.atving.com /editor/review/atv/bombardier/99traxter/features.htm (1103 words)

	Bombardier, Joseph-Armand
		Like many other inventors, Bombardier first tried as a teenager to realize his idea of an all-terrain vehicle, equally reliable on soft ground (eg, muskeg) or snow.
		The specific invention that made his machine of 1937 a success was the principle of steering by skis in front of a tracked drive.
		Competing SNOWMOBILE producers threatened to overwhelm the Bombardier family firm in the early 1970s, but it survived and expanded.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000855 (198 words)

	Joseph-Armand Bombardier
		The young Bombardier discovered his passion for mechanics at Valcourt, a small farming village in the Eastern Townships of Québec.
		Bombardier was forced to leave the snow trails for a brief time to tackle other difficult terrain - the farm, mining and forestry markets.
		More recently, Bombardier won the contract to build the trains for the "Chunnel." The Bombardier "spirit" that has ensured such success is a spirit of initiative and responsibility combined with consistent technological advancement, workmanship, and pride in the past.
	www.histori.ca /minutes/minute.do?id=10204 (1129 words)

	canadaeast.com - TT General Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bombardier spent years working on his childhood dream, tinkering around with a number of vehicles until he found a winner that he patented in 1937.
		Bombardier got his first patent for the snowmobile in 1937, based on the continuous traction tread that all snowmobiles use today.
		Bombardier chairman Laurent Beaudoin, 64, Bombardier's son-in-law, joined the firm in 1963 and is the manager who expanded the family-owned business into a rail and aerospace multinational.
	canadaeast.com /apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73135228907834&Avis=CE&Dato=20030409&Kategori=TTMONEY10&Lopenr=204090347&Ref=AR (771 words)

	Bombardier- Inventor of the Snowmobile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Soon Bombardier got a patent for his device, and his name began to spread around the province of Quebec.
		Bombardier needed a plan, he decided to make a snow clearing device, but an American beat him to the task.
		Bombardier then decided to stray from his dream and create an all-terrain vehicle, the Muskeg.
	www.occdsb.on.ca /~sel/cahero/bombardier.htm (351 words)

	J.A. Bombardier - Business Leader and Inventor
		In 1958, Bombardier introduced a snow machine, the "Ski-doo" that was to revolutionize travel in snow.
		After Bombardier died, the company continued and expanded into new divisions, most notable the aircraft and passenger train fields.
		It is estimated that Bombardier employs over 50,000 people with gross revenue in the billions each year.
	deena.ca /bombardier_ja.html (214 words)

	PIERRE BEAUDOIN, PRESIDENT, BOMBARDIER BUSINESS AIRCRAFT
		Bombardier Business Aircraft is looking to streamline its service and support functions, and has resolved to remind customers constantly that Bombardier aircraft are built by Bombardier.
		Bombardier's playing it close to the vest, as usual, but is said by industry sources to be working on an adjunct to the Learjet line and on a new variant of the flagship Global Express, with the latter countering such new and improved Gulfstream offerings as the GV-SP.
		Be Bombardier's new aircraft as they may, the company is busily trumpeting the first flight, on August 14, of the Continental, an eight-passenger, $14.7 million super-midsize, of which 115 have been sold.
	www.aviationnow.com /shownews/01nbaa/newsmk03.htm (585 words)

	Joseph-Armand Bombardier, The Father of Snowmobiling - ExploreNorth
		Joseph-Armand Bombardier is only one of hundreds of inventors who have designed machines for traveling across the snow.
		Bombardier's development in 1958 of the type of sport machine that we know today as a "snowmobile", however, was instrumental in changing life in all regions that get snow.
		Bombardier was born at Valcourt, Quebec, on April 16, 1907.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/weekly/aa010201a.htm (638 words)

	Bombardier Produits récréatifs / Bombardier Recreational Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bombardier is the official supplier of tracked vehicles for the Olympic Games in Sarajevo (1984) and in Calgary (1988).
		Bombardier is the official supplier of snowgrooming equipment, snowmobiles and ATVs for the Salt Lake City Olympics.
		Bombardier reinvents the snowmobile and introduces the Ski-Doo MXZ REV, the most radical change in snowmobile architecture in more than 40 years.
	www.brp.com /en-CA/Company/Our.History/1940.htm (294 words)

	Joseph-Armand Bombardier
		Joseph-Armand Bombardier was the eldest of eight children.
		In 1937, after years of effort and persistence, Bombardier produced a seven-passenger transporter (B-7) and obtained a patent for his tracked drive system that henceforth equipped all his vehicles.
		With that invention, Joseph-Armand Bombardier solved the problem of individual transportation on snow in remote areas and gave birth to a new industry.
	edimage.ca /edimage/grandspersonnages/en/carte_b04.html (395 words)

	Joseph-armand Bombardier Snowmobile - Super Snowmobile Guide
		Joseph Bombardier Joseph-Armand Bombardier, The Man Born in Valcourt in 1907, Joseph-Armand Bombardier was the eldest of eight...
		Joseph Armand Bombardier was an inventor at heart and his skill has...
		Bombardier reinvents the snowmobile and introduces the Ski-Doo MXZ REV,...
	www.supersnowmobileguide.com /joseph-armand-bombardier-snowmobile.html (574 words)

	Joseph-ArmandBombardier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Joseph-Armand Bombardier's dream was that "One day I will build a little machine that glides over the snow." This dream mixed with his desire to invent spawned the creation of the machine we now call the snowmobile.
		Soon after Bombardier Snowmobile Limited was launched which started mass production of a seven-passenger snowmobile called the B7.
		On February 18, 1964, Joseph-Armand Bombardier died of cancer at the age of 56.
	www.geocities.com /highspeed12b/Joseph-ArmandBombardier.html (281 words)

	The Wings Club Speech 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bombardier was established in 1942 to commercialize the inventions of Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who developed a number of tracked machines to travel over snow during Canada’s long winter months.
		Today, Bombardier is a diversified Canadian transnational company with net annual sales amounting to $8.5 billion Canadian, and net income of $420 million, and growing at about 20 percent annually over the last 10 years.
		Bombardier created the regional jet market with the launch of the original 50-passenger Regional Jet in 1989 and we added the 70-passenger segment early in 1997 with the launch of the Series 700.
	www.wingsclub.org /speech3.htm (3744 words)

	Cody Enterprise: News about Cody, Wyoming, and Yellowstone Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bombardier and his younger brother Leopold began a secret project that occupied all of their spare time until New Year's Eve, when they unveiled a vehicle consisting of a frame with four skis, the Ford engine and a rear-mounted propeller.
		Bombardier spent his life in the development and adaptation of better and better over-snow vehicles such as propeller-driven snowmobiles called "snowplanes," followed by track-driven snow machines.
		Yellowstone's fleet of Bombardier snowcoaches are all R-12s.
	www.codyenterprise.com /articles/2004/11/01/sports/sports3.txt (618 words)

	Bombardier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	www.papa-mike.com /doorway/Bombardier.htm (458 words)

	Seadoo SportBoats
		In fact, Bombardier pioneered the personal-size boats that today are known as personal watercraft.
		Another very practical concern at Bombardier was the acceptance of the unique Sea-Doo® design by the general public.
		Bombardier Inc. was a growing company at the time, but Ski-Doo® snowmobiles were a major portion of the company's business.
	www.seadoo.com /en-US/SportBoats/About.Us/Sea-Doo/History/Overview.htm (893 words)

	JOSEPH-ARMAND BOMBARDIER
		Joseph-Armand Bombardier was born in Valcourt, province of Quebec, in 1907.
		Bombardier was spending time to research to build a vehicle that could travel on snow.
		Today Bombardier owned plants in Quebec, Austria, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Mexico, Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the United States.
	www.crsd.ab.ca /lgms/famous/bombardier.htm (222 words)

	Joseph-Armand Bombardier
		One of the greatest inventors and industrialists of the Eastern Townships, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, was born in Valcourt in 1907 to Anna Gravel and Alfred Bombardier, a farmer turned general merchant.
		The eldest of eight children, Bombardier, from an early age, combined a talent for tinkering with a passion for machines.
		After contributing to the war effort, Bombardier devoted himself to his business and continued his work as an inventor, adapting his vehicles to the needs of the forestry, mining, and petroleum industries.
	www.townshipsheritage.com /Eng/Hist/FamousInv/bombardier.html (284 words)

	Joseph Heller
		Joseph Heller, the author of "Catch-22," the darkly comic 1961 novel that became a universal metaphor not only for the insanity of war, but also for the madness of life itself, died Sunday night at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 76.
		Joseph Heller was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn on May 1, 1923, the son of Isaac Donald Heller, who drove a delivery truck for a wholesale baker, and Lena Heller.
		It was Isaac Heller's second marriage and young Joseph had a half-brother, Lee, 14 years his senior, and a half-sister Sylvia, seven years older, from the first marriage.
	www.mishalov.com /Heller.html (2969 words)

	Musée Bombardier \| J-Armand Bombardier
		Joseph-Armand's ability to finally develop the light, individual vehicle he had always dreamed of was made possible by the advent of lighter motors, and especially by the revolutionary continuous track designed and patented by his son Germain at the Kingsbury experimental site.
		The success of Bombardier Inc. and the humanitarian and social mission fulfilled by the J. Armand Bombardier Foundation show he had every reason to have confidence in them.
		He recruits his workforce in Valcourt and respects the pace of life in the region, such as by allowing farmers to work their fields in the summer and take factory shifts in the winter.
	www.museebombardier.com /en/content/jab/biographie1959_1964.htm (736 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bombardier Story: Planes, Trains, and Snowmobiles: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As of 2001, Bombardier Inc. was number one in railway equipment, number two in recreational vehicles, and number three in civil aircraft.
		Bombardier not only proved them wrong, but is now revolutionizing the air travel industry with this new kind of jet.
		Bombardier's story is one of inspiring entrepreneurship, as well as outstanding leadership and management.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471646407?v=glance (1623 words)

	The Wings Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bombardier does not rush into new ventures and seeks to maintain a balance among business activities, none representing more than 20 percent of the total.
		Bombardier’s success with Learjet is a good example of this policy in practice.
		Today, as the world’s third largest civil airframe manufacturer, Bombardier Aerospace is highly integrated, it is making a very solid profit and it has the critical mass to develop new products capable of competing—and succeeding—on the global stage.
	www.wingsclub.org /speech3.html (3744 words)

	Bombardier / About us / History
		In June 1995, Bombardier introduces the Noise and Vibration Suppression system (NVS) for the Dash 8 turboprop aircraft, and renames the family of aircraft Dash 8 Q Series* ("Q" for Quiet).
		In March 2002, Bombardier wins a $1.49 billion order for electric multiple units (EMU) in the U.K. In March 2002, Bombardier reaches a major milestone in the development of the multipurpose version of the Bombardier* 415* amphibious aircraft.
		Bombardier CRJ, ranking the CRJ Series as the most successful regional aircraftprogram ever and one of the best-selling commercial jetliner programs in history.
	www.bombardier.com /en/0_0/0_0_1_6_2_2.html (2351 words)

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		Joseph Bombardier dit Labombarde (Jacques and Marguerite Dutour)
		Joseph Hebert dit Larose, former French soldier, buried at Chambly 28 September 1822, age 90, son of Antoine Hebert and Angelique Chaput of the town of Perpignan, Pyrenees-
		Joseph Bombardier dit Labombarde (Jean-Baptiste Bombardier-Labombarde and Marie Poyer)
	www.rootsweb.com /~vtgrandi/demarce/labombar.htm (3002 words)

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