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1927 Johnson Seahorse outboard motor at the Tellus Science Museum. The original company that made Johnson inboard motors and outboard motors was the Johnson Brothers Motor Company of Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. They started building inboard 2-cycle marine engines in 1903 in a barn behind the house, along with matching boats.
Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) was a maker of Evinrude, Johnson and Gale Outboard Motors, and many different brands of boats. It was a multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 corporation. [ 1 ] Evinrude began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1907.
The first known outboard motor was a small 11 pound (5 kg) electric unit designed around 1870 by Gustave Trouvé, [9] and patented in May 1880 (Patent N° 136,560). [10] Later about 25 petrol powered outboards may have been produced in 1896 by American Motors Co [ 9 ] —but neither of these two pioneering efforts appear to have had much impact.
Evinrude Outboard Motors was a North American company that built a major brand of two-stroke outboard motors for boats. Founded by Ole Evinrude in Milwaukee , Wisconsin in 1907, it was formerly owned by the publicly traded Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) since 1935 but OMC filed for bankruptcy in 2000.
Gale Products was a manufacturer of several products based in Galesburg, Illinois.The company started in 1937 assembling refrigerators from parts sent in from Waukegan, Illinois [1] The factory expanded making many other household products.
Ole Evinrude formed Evinrude Outboard Motors, which he sold in 1913 in order to look after his sick wife. In 1919, Evinrude invented a more efficient and lighter two-cylinder motor. Having sold his part in Clemick & Evinrude, he founded ELTO or the Elto Outboard Motor Company. (ELTO was an acronym for "Evinrude Light Twin Outboard".)
The D-400 series engine or the Iron Horse engine was a light-duty two-stroke engine used for powering lawnmowers produced from the 1950s to the late 1970s. D-400 engines were single-cylinder engines designed and manufactured by the Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC; Johnson and Evinrude) for Lawn-Boy [ 2 ] and Masport .
The CR500 was first produced in 1984, and had a 491 cc (30.0 cu in) air-cooled two-stroke engine that produced 60.8 hp [citation needed], the most powerful motocross bike that Honda had ever produced. [11] For 1985, a new water-cooled engine was introduced. The CR500 raced in long desert rallies like the Baja 500 and 1000. The 500 cc racing ...