Outboard Marine

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The Outboard Marine Corporation was a maker of boat motors and maintenance supplies, they also owned several lines of boats such as Chris Craft. They are now owned by Bombardier.

These engines are also known to be very reliable in most applications, and have been favorites of fisherman and boaters for many years. They dominated the race scene in the 70's and even held many records. Mercury and OMC competed fiercely. Since then, Mercury has stood alone in the race scene. OMC were innovative and even raced an experimental rotary engine built in a joint effort with Wankel. Business and quality issues took its toll on the company and they left the racing scene and almost went under. After the company was sold several times and broken up, Bombardier bought the fledgling company and is working to restore the company.

OMC outboard engines (Johnson and Evinrude) are engines designed for the fishing and the military market.

[edit] Factories

• Peterborough, Ontario

[edit] See also

• Johnson Outboards
• Evinrude Outboard Motors