Armand joseph bombardier biography


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Joseph Bombardier Biography

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.


He made his first snowmobile prototype when he was 15 years old.

He was born in a large family of prosperous farmers and small shop-keepers in the small town of Valcourt, not too far from Sherbrooke, South East of Montreal in the province of Quebec.

His brothers were later to help him about in several aspects of running what would eventually become a large mechanical engineering concern, leaving him free to concentrate on mechanical innovations and high level corporate orientations.

Later still, his own sons and daughters were to be instrumental in making his company grow to international proportions.

He started off small by opening a garage in Valcourt in 1926, fixing cars and selling gas in the three snow-free seasons of the year, and tinkering with his project

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