Grumman Scooters

[Duggy009]

Taken on Long Island 43, it says the "Scooters" are used for transporting pilots & used for fire fighting.
But who built them & do any survive?
I can find nothing on the WEB.

Thanks in advance Duggy.

[wwmb43]

Cushman 39, modified I think

[Duggy009]

Thanks, never heard of this company before.
One is preserved in the NMUSAF.
LINK -- http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/ ... ooter.aspx

[maxum96]

Cushman scooters were huge from the 1940's-1960's. There still quite a few of them around as well as Cushman clubs.

[ZRX61]

I'm still looking for a roach coach scrap yard so I can get one of those Grumman signs off one

[JohnB]

Good luck finding the WWII-era logo on a Grumman van.
By that time they had pretty much switched logos, at least on their mail trucks.

As a kid I want to a YMCA summer camp, all the canoes were Grumman and had the original logo on them. Knowing about their histories then, I enjoyed that.
Last week I was at a friend's newly finished mansion to see a biplane he's restoring (in the huge family room...yes, he's single so he can do such things) and in the garage he had his family's old Grumman canoe. It dated from the late 60s and had the new logo.

[maxum96]

As a kid I want to a YMCA summer camp, all the canoes were Grumman and had the original logo on them.

Funny you mention that. When I was a kid in the Boy Scouts, we had the aluminum Grumman canoes too. I remember the Grumman logo on them. I also remember them burning the hands of us kids as we carried them down to the Colorado river when we launched them just below the Hoover dam during the summer time.

[dropctune]

They still make em. We have two of them

[SaxMan]

Pretty much any country club, park maintenance shop or amusement park still uses Cushmans. When I performed at Hershey Park 20 years ago, we were allowed to bring our van into the park prior to it opening to the public in the morning to bring our equipment in, but we had to load it out on Cushmans, as the park was open and people were there. We also rode a "stretch Cushman" which was like a 10 seat golf cart.

You could probably get a repro of the old Grumman logo made up for you.