Joesph Armand Bombardier: Inventor of the Snowmobile

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All About The Product (History)

Current Competition:

• skis and snowboards
• vehicles on the road
• snowblowers and other snow removal machines

• people living in year-round cold cities and places with cold winters
• ski resorts
• avid winter outdoorsmen

Target Audience:

All About The Product (History)

Success Continued:

• in 1947-48, company achieves total sales of $2.3 million
• gained profit of $324 000

• at end of the 1950s, company achieves total sales of $3.5 million

• In 1958-59, gained profit of $850 000

All About The Product (History)

Success:

Inventor of the Snowmobile

• developed patent on the sprocket wheel/track system

• expanded company’s production plant

• military employed company to create snowmobiles equipped for war zones

• created recreational snowmobile Ski-Doo

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Timeline (1958):

• manages to accomplish childhood dream of creating a recreational snowmobile

• mass production begins and the snowmobile gains popularity very quickly

(Autumn 1959)

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Timeline (1952)

And Changes/Challenge #5:

• quality of rubber and market prices change
• decides to make own rubber from raw materials

• track shows weakness
• SOLUTION: produce own tracks

• manages to create an all-rubber unbreakable sprocket

All About The Company (History)

Founder of L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée

Timeline (Around 1946):

• creates a new snowmobile with capacity of either 18 adults or 25 schoolchildren

• sales drop dramatically due to a light snow and the government clearing all rural routes
• SOLUTION: create vehicles for other terrain (including forest and mud/swamps)

(1948-49)

And Challenge #4:

All About The Product (History) Continued

Timeline (around 1942)

and Challenge #3:

• is not allowed to manufacture vehicles for civilians
• SOLUTION: develops the military snowmobile B1 that the Canadian Forces orders 130 to be made within 4 months

• production in a Montreal factory begins

All About The Company (History)

Timeline (July 10, 1942):

All About The Product (History) Continued

(1943)

• expands company into L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée

• develops an armoured track vehicle and an armoured snowmobile

• company builds a new assembly line plant capable of making 1000 vehicles

Timeline (1940)

And Changes:

(1946)

• large amounts of snow and ice clog up the vehicle’s wheel spokes
• changes to a press that creates solid wheels

• creates new, more aerodynamic snowmobile that allows 12 passengers

(1941)

All About The Product (History) Continued

Timeline (1935)

And Where/When:

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(December 1936)

• manages to create your first workable snowmobile with a sprocket wheel/track system (in Valcourt)

• applies for a patent

• receives patent

• turns garage into a production plant, leading to the first sales of snowmobiles

Why Product Was Created:

Joseph Armand Bombardier

(June 1937)

(Winter 1937)

• wants a motorized vehicle that is light enough to travel on snow

• Quebec government doesn’t clear smaller secondary roads in more rural areas

• tragedy with son in winter 1934

All About Bombardier Continued

Education Continued

And Challenge #1:

Financial Burden

And Challenge #2:

• moves back to Valcourt in 1926 to open a garage with a loan from father
• SOLUTION: manages to make money fast, with ability to solve mechanical problems

• able to pay back father in 1929

70 Snowfalls Ago in Quebec...

• wants to become a mechanic
• SOLUTION: quits schools and starts an apprenticeship at Gosselins’s Garage in South Stukely in the spring of 1924

• starts working in Montreal

• takes night school courses in mechanics and mechanical engineering

All About Bombardier Continued

Saint-Charles-Borromée,

• marries Yvonne Labrecque on August 7, 1929

• has six children later on

What Are We Talking About?

All About Joseph Armand BomBardier

Description:

A snowmobile is an automotive vehicle capable of traveling on snow or ice, typically designed for winter recreational purposes or travel. A snowmobile includes a caterpillar track that allows it to move freely over terrain.

April 16, 1907 in Valcourt, Quebec

Family Background:

Birth:

parents Anna and Albert ran the local general store and farmed

Upbringing:

was the eldest child out of eight siblings

Personality Traits:

a curious, hardworking and goal-setting risk-taker

EDUCATION:

started studies at seminary school (Saint-Charles-Borromée) in Sherbrooke