Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a mechanic who dreamed of building a vehicle that could " float on snow ".

The Ski-doo was originally called the " Ski-Dog " because Bombardier meant it to be a practical vehicle to replace the dogsled for hunters and trappers.

In 1967 L ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée was renamed Bombardier Limited and on January 23, 1969, the company went public, listing on the Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges.

Learjet continues to operate as a subsidiary of Bombardier and manufactures jets under the Learjet name. The slogan was changed in 2012 to the Evolution of Mobility from We Move People.

On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.

TCL was a partnership comprising First Group, Bombardier Transportation ( the builders of the system's trams ), Sir Robert McAlpine and Amey Construction Ltd ( who built the system ), and Royal Bank of Scotland and 3i ( who arranged the finances ).

Setting aside Peary's claim, the first confirmed surface conquest of the North Pole was that of Ralph Plaisted, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean Luc Bombardier, who traveled over the ice by snowmobile and arrived on April 19, 1968.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

He was appointed Lance Bombardier and was about to be promoted to Bombardier when he was wounded in action in the Italian theatre at the Battle of Monte Cassino.

It was announced on 27 September 2010 that Bombardier Transportation had won a $ 303 million contract to supply and maintain 50 new E class trams, the contract includes an option for a further 100.

In 1976 Canadair was sold back to the Canadian Government, which sold it to Bombardier Inc. in 1986.

Among the hospital patients who escaped were a Corporal Mayer of the NNC ; Bombardier Lewis of the Royal Artillery and Trooper Green of the Natal Mounted Police who was wounded in the thigh by a spent bullet.

The stock was refurbished by Bombardier Transportation between 1995 and 2000.

Plagued with frequent breakdowns of its turbine power plants, it nevertheless assured daily service between Montreal and Toronto until it was replaced by Bombardier LRC trains in 1982.

The ICN ( InterCity Neigezug, or InterCity Tilting Train ) was made by Bombardier, including a tilting-system designed by SIG ( today ALSTOM ).

Bombardier customers had to prove that snowmobiles were essential to their livelihood in order to buy one.

In 1948 the Quebec government passed a law requiring all highways and local roads to be cleared of snow ; the Bombardier company's sales fell by nearly half in one year.

Bombardier wanted to develop a fast, lightweight snowmobile that could carry one or two people.

With the acquisition of Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, Bombardier Transportation emerged as one of the largest manufacturers of railway rolling stock in the world.

Although the borough is heavily residential, it is home to one of America's oldest traditional amusement parks, Kennywood Park ; the fourth largest shopping mall in the region, Century III ; advanced naval nuclear propulsion technology research and development facility, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory ; monorail manufacturer Bombardier ; US Steel's Irvin Plant ; Community College of Allegheny County's South Campus ; the Allegheny County Airport ; and various other businesses and industries.

In April 1997, Adria ordered two new Bombardier CRJ200LR planes with an option for one more.

As the required capacity of the ALRT system rose, it eventually approached the size of conventional heavy rail, and ALRT was cancelled in favour of additional diesel units pulling Bombardier BiLevel Coaches, which have since gone on to be one of Bombardier's best-selling products.

In September 2010, Estonian Air announced that they have finally signed an agreement with Bombardier, in which two CRJ-900 NextGen aircraft are going to be delivered in the beginning of 2011 ( both planes were delivered in January 2011 ) and a third one in 2012.

In November 2011, East African media reported the resumption of service by ACTL, following the return of one Bombardier Q300 from extensive service in South Africa.

The Hiawatha Line's original first-generation fleet of 27 Flexity Swift LRVs was built by Bombardier ; the Siemens " type II " LRVs will be mechanically, but not electronically, compatible with the current fleet of 27 " type I " vehicles, so while the two generations will be able to run on the tracks at the same time and either type would be able to push a malfunctioning unit of the other type, multiple-unit trains may only be assembled of one type.

Two of the four received in February 2003 were reviewed further, one from a consortium of Fluor Corp. and Bombardier Transportation and one from Global Rail Consortium.

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.

In 1991, ConnDOT purchased Bombardier Shoreliner III coaches, similar to ones already used on the Danbury Branch and Waterbury Branch and leased GP-38s and one GP-7W from Guilford Transportation Industries.

The trend in new aircraft is to lower the cabin altitude: the Airbus A380 features when cruising at, while one of the lowest currently flying is the Bombardier Global Express business jet which features when cruising at.

Usually, brake disks are installed in the center of the axle, but in some applications ( such as Bombardier Bi Level commuter cars ), only one disk is used, mounted on the axle end outside the truck frame.

Autoroute 55 ( also called Autoroute de l ' Énergie ( North of the Autoroute 20 ) and Autoroute Joseph-Armand Bombardier ( South part ) is an important north-south Autoroute and the only one running in that direction in central Quebec.

Out of the all the Richmond Hill line stations, this is the only station that has a reduced length platform ( accommodating only up to an L8 consist, a trainset consisting of eight Bombardier BiLevel Coaches and at least one locomotive.

The branch operates one Bombardier BD-700 Global Express aircraft and two GulfStream G550 with 15 seats capaicity.

The airline operates one type of aircraft, the 50 seat Bombardier Q300.

In Nov 2001 after the acquisition of Adtranz Bombardier indicated that the plant would be one of three main sites in Europe for bogie manufacture, and a core site for final assembly.

Bombardier has made the plant one of its key production sites with over 2000 employees ( 2010 ), and claims an investment of over € 500 million-the site accounts for around one third of French domestic passenger rail production.

He is also chairman of various international advisory boards and councils for many international companies, including Power Corp. ( Montreal ), Bombardier ( Montreal ), the China International Trust and Investment Corp. ( Beijing ), J. P. Morgan Chase and Co. ( New York ), Violy, Byorum and Partners ( New York ), VS & A Communications Partners ( New York ), Independent Newspapers ( Dublin ) and General Enterprise Management Services Limited ( British Virgin Islands ).

It includes aerospace companies such as airplane manufacturer Bombardier, jet engine companies Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce Canada, flight simulator builder CAE, and defence contractor Lockheed Martin and L-3 Communications.

These companies are known as Infracos — Infrastructure Companies — and are made up of consortia of companies: Metronet, for example, was a consortium of Balfour Beatty, WS Atkins, Bombardier, EDF Energy and Thames Water.

In 2002 Bombardier announced that it was to sue DaimlerChrysler for $ 867million due to alleged misleading financial information regarding Adtranz provided by DaimlerChrysler during the takeover, in September 2004 the case was settled with the companies agreeing to a $ 209million reduction in price.

DHC was eventually incorporated into the Bombardier group of companies and the Dash-8 remains in production with a particular emphasis being placed on its quiet operation in comparison to other aircraft of a similar size.

The club kit has been supplied by Kooga since at least 2007 and is sponsored by three companies ; The front of the team shirt by Autoglass, the sleeves by Wells Bombardier and the back by Lifesure insurance.

These companies included Tucker Sno-Cat, Thiokol, KRISTI snowcat, Snow Trac, Bombardier and numerous other smaller companies.

Although the LRC was never the success Bombardier hoped, the company continued to buy other rail companies in North America and Europe, dramatically expanding division until it became the largest supplier of rail equipment in the world with its purchase of ADtranz in 2001.

ML Engineering was taken over by various companies and is owned by Bombardier Transportation ( 2009 ).