The History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part Eleven
The 1960’s. OMC and Mercury continued the competition between themselves as the leaders of the industry. Other outboard motor makers such as Homelite and Scott-Atwater (...
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The 1950’s. This decade was a time when two manufacturers became the dominate outboard motor makers. Evinrude-Johnson ( OMC ) and Mercury Marine. Mercury fast out paced OMC...
The History of Outboard Motors – Part Nine
When world war II ended in 1945, Mercury was ready with two new motor models. A 3.2 horsepower single cylinder called the Comet and the twin cylinder 6 horsepower named the...
The History of Outboard Motors – Part Eight
The 1940 Mercury outboard boat motor was a very good looking streamlined motor compared to other brands at the time. The drive shaft was put inside a casing that also served to...
The History of Outboard Motors – Part Seven
Mercury Outboard Motors was founded in 1939 by Carl Kiekhaefer who at the time was a chief engineer working at a successful company not related to boating. Wanting to own his own...
The History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part Six
In the early years of the outboard boat motors development, many people started companies and made their own boat motors in the hopes of selling them and making a lot money. For...
The History of Outboard Motors – Part Five
The Johnson brothers from Terre Haute Indiana first offered for sale the Johnson outboard motors in 1922 with their 2 horsepower twin cylinder, water cooled outboard motor that...
The History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part Four
Ole and Bess Evinrude worked so hard on making and marketing the outboard engines that in order to take time off and vacation they were forced to sell their interest in the...
The History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part Three
About the same time Mr. Waterman was developing his first boat motors, a young man named Ole Evinrude, born in Norway in 1877 and came to America in 1882, started out his adult...
The History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part Two
What is considered the first generally known outboard boat motors that the public became familiar with was developed by a man who’s name was ( and this is no joke ) Cameron...
The History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part One
I am sure the idea for inventing the outboard boat motor came from someone who was rowing a boat one hot steamy day and thought to himself, there had to be a better way to move...
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