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Bombardier and acquired
In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.
In 1970 Bombardier acquired the Viennese company Lohner-Rotax, a manufacturer of snowmobile engines and tramways, and became involved with rail business.
In 2001 Bombardier acquired Adtranz ( DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems ), a manufacturer of trains which were widely used throughout Germany and Great Britain.
After acquiring Canadair in 1986 and restoring it to profitability, Bombardier acquired in 1989 the near-bankrupt Short Brothers aircraft manufacturing company in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
* Canadair-predecessor aerospace company ( once part of Canadian Vickers and General Dynamics ) acquired by Bombardier Inc. that became the core of Bombardier Aerospace
The company was subsequently acquired by Bombardier ( Canada ) around 2002.
Alweg's Seattle subsidiary Wegematic ceased operations in 1964, but some of the technology used in the Disneyland monorail was eventually acquired by Canadian company Bombardier.
Lear Jet was acquired in 1990 by Bombardier Aerospace, by that time the parent company of Canadair.
Adtranz was later acquired by Bombardier Transportation, who continues to operate the AirTrain under contract to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ,< ref >
In late 1997, Impulse acquired two of Irish multi-millionaire Max Grieve's Bombardier Dash 8s, however they were grounded after only four flights due to irreparable toilet blockages, amongst other technical problems.
Bombardier Transportation acquired the company in 2001, at which time Adtranz was the world's second largest manufacturer of such equipment.
DHC was eventually acquired by Montreal-based Bombardier Aerospace in 1992.
These were built by Bombardier, which had acquired Concarril in 1992, but were built in the same factory ( in Ciudad Sahagún ) and were nearly identical to STE's 12 Concarril cars.
In 2003, after Bombardier acquired the Evinrude and Johnson Outboards brands, the questionable FICHT technology was replaced by E-TEC direct injection.
The company was first acquired by Outboard Marine Corporation ( OMC ) and then later by Bombardier Recreational Products.
In August 2003, Bain acquired a 50 % interest in Bombardier Inc .' s recreational products division, along with the Bombardier family and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and created Bombardier Recreational Products or BRP.
The Talent is a multiple unit railcar manufactured by Bombardier that was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen shortly before the company was acquired by Bombardier in 1995.
The design was acquired by Bombardier when they took over Adtranz.
Sold to SNC-Lavalin in 1986, re-sold to the Government of Ontario, CCF assets was finally acquired by Bombardier Transportation.
Hawker Siddeley Canada's operations were then acquired by Kingston-based UTDC ( later sold to Bombardier Transportation of Montréal, Québec ).

Bombardier and assets
Bombardier turned down the chance to purchase Fokker's assets, feeling that the 100-seat market was already saturated by designs like the A319.
The new UAV production line began in 1996 under Bombardier Aerospace, which acquired the assets of Canadair, the original developer of the CL-227.

Bombardier and designs
* Viking Air-Canadian manufacturer that purchased the type certificates from Bombardier for all discontinued de Havilland Canada designs ( except for the Dash 8 Series 400 ), allowing Viking to build and sell them
Bombardier's original designs were not very popular and Bombardier left the business before 1970.
All rolling stock for both GO Transit and West Coast Express are bilevel designs produced by Bombardier Transportation.
Other designs, including rolling stock made by Colorado Railcar, Budd, Pullman-Standard, Bombardier and others have an entrance on the lower deck rather than an intermediate level.
Bombardier has since returned to the locomotive manufacturing business, albeit using largely European or European-influenced passenger locomotive designs that retain none of the ALCO / MLW heritage.
The company ceased production after the Amtrak Superliner cars in 1982 and its remaining designs were purchased in 1987 when it was absorbed by Bombardier.
On 24 February 2006, Viking Air of Victoria purchased the type certificates from Bombardier Aerospace for all the original De Havilland designs including:
The new name did not save the company, and on April 3, 1987, Budd ended all railcar production at its Red Lion plant in Northeast Philadelphia and sold its rail designs to Bombardier Transportation.
Bombardier also manufactures several other families of tram to suit the needs and requirements of customers including the Flexity Classic and the Flexity 2 as well as legacy designs from its acquisition of Adtranz such as the Flexity Outlook.
Many other designs of new train, such as the Bombardier Class 375 and Alstom Class 458 units, had been plagued by problems and poor reliability.
Later coaches were manufactured by Urban Transportation Development Corporation / Can-Car and finally Bombardier, who now owns the designs and manufacturing facility.

Bombardier and Company
He is also a director of Trow Global, Bombardier Inc., The Great-West Life Assurance Company, The Investors Group, Ecopia Biosciences inc., and is Chairman of the Board of Victhom Human Bionics in Quebec City.
" Bombardier beat a bid from The General Electric Company plc and Fokker whilst Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm withdrew before final offers were submitted.
An avid outdoorsman, in the early 1960's he was one of the first Minnesotans to buy a Ski-Doo snowmobile, a then-novel invention of Canada's Bombardier Company, and became a convert and booster of the machine.
It is operated under contract by the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company ( MBCR ) a joint partnership of Veolia Transportation, Bombardier Transportation and Alternate Concepts, Inc.
Christie is known to have represented Bombardier Transportation, URS Cole Sherman, Thales Group, Cubic Transportation Systems, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, Astral Media Outdoor, Out-of-Home Marketing Association of Canada, Greenwin Property Management Inc., Toronto Airport Limousine Association, Cinespace Studios, STV Inc., ACS-A Xerox Company and several other large entities.

Bombardier and American
The snowmobile market is now divided up between the four large North American makers ( Bombardier Recreational Products ( BRP ), Arctic Cat, Yamaha, and Polaris ) and some specialized makers like the Quebec-based AD Boivin ( manufacturer of the Snow Hawk ) and the European Alpina Snowmobiles.
ECAC has a fleet of: Piper Tomahawks ; Cessna 172M ; Piper Warrior II ; Piper Warrior III ( Garmin Equipped ); Cessna 172 ( G1000 ); Piper Arrow ; Piper Arrow ( New Model ); Cessna 182T ( Garmin Equipped ); Cirrus SR20 ; Piper Seminole ( Multi-Engine ); Cirrus SR22 ; Robinson R44 ( Helicopter ); Piaggio, Avanti ; Bombardier: Global Express, Challenger ; Socata: TBM-850 / 700 ; Pilatus: PC-12 ; American Champion: Super Decathlon ; Extra: 300.
While more than 3, 000 of the Bombardier B12 / C18 variants were produced, there was plenty of competition for Bombardier to contend with in both the North American and world markets.
Most of the Bombardier production stayed in North American and it was the most popular series of snowcats ever produced, but it was clearly a niche product.
* March 15-Amtrak selects the " American Flyer " design developed by Bombardier and Alstom, based on the TGV trains of France, as the design model for its Acela Express rolling stock.
Many American commuter railroads who operate the Comet railcars made by Bombardier have trap doors to accommodate loading and unloading of passengers on both high-level and ground-level platforms.
Other notable players in the North American snowcat market included Thiokol, Bombardier, KRISTI snowcat and Swedish manufacturer Aktiv Snow Trac.
* American Magline Group, " Technology Comparison: Transrapid Superspeed Maglev and Bombardier JetTrain, December 2002

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