Re: DON'T BUY THIS SCOOTER…

• Author: benny (---.proxy.aol.com)
• Verified User: benny
• Date Posted: 11-24-05 21:26

>Mopeds also have a long history,the very first motorized cycles were mopeds.Scooters didn’t come along until much later.Jerry.<

Japan also put the Wizzer motor bike out of business. Today it’s China taking over.

>http://motorcycles.about.com/cs/scooters/a/scooters.htm<

The earliest Cushman scooters were sold in 1937 and known as Auto-Glide models. The original Auto-Glides sold for $132 to $140. By 1938 Cushman had nine models of scooters.

They continued to build scooters in what they called the twenty series and thirty series until World War II. Then all scooter production went to the war effort. Some wartime scooters were designed to be dropped from airplanes and they were used for other military duties.

The fifty series of scooters after the war resulted in something the Cushman Company called “The Family Scooter.” These were scooters with automatic clutch and were simple to operate.

The Cushman Eagle scooters were first sold in 1949. They looked like miniature motorcycles and gained in popularity becoming the best sellers for Cushman. In the early sixties the Japanese invasion of motorcycles began and other scooters began being imported to the USA. In 1961 Cushman actually decided to distribute Vespa scooters in the US. Cushman discontinued the Eagle scooter in 1965 and soon the entire line. Thereafter they concentrated on building industrial and commercial vehicles including golf cars.

Surprisingly, Cushman is a survivor and exists today under the parent company of Textron. Indeed, Cushman celebrated its 100th anniversary in June, 2001 at their plant in Lincoln, Nebraska.