![]() Robert Bottoms watched his then 20-year-old salesman Paul Crane driving down the unpaved Main Street of Valcourt, Quebec, on a prototype only a year earlier, he saw dollar signs. Robert Bottoms, marketing genius and President of Timberland Machines, Inc, Lancaster NH.īut when Timberland Machines branch manager and marketing genius Mr. They would soon outgrow their small building on Canal Street, moving into a brand-new modern facility at the head of Main Street, all because of what was contained in that little wooden crate. ![]() It would, in a short few years, transport this sleepy northern New Hampshire village onto the world stage, bring much needed wealth to town as well as to Timberland Machines Inc. Little did anyone know at the time that the 1960 Ski-Doo inside this crate would forever change the face of winter as we knew it. First Ski-Doo in the United States, serial #60-22, on Paul Cranes’s property in Lancaster, circa 1960. Along with a few Bombardier J 5 and Muskeg parts delivered for Timberland Machines, there was a six-foot-long wooden crate. Ski-Doo Introduced First Snowmobile in NHīecause 60 years ago on December 4, 1959, a single-axle 1957 Chevrolet tractor pulling a single axle flatbed trailer, driven by Albert “Burt” Morin slipped quietly into town late that afternoon. One that should be celebrated with a parade, a dance, or the very least, front page news in the Coos County Democrat. A date that is arguably one of the most important dates in the history of the town of Lancaster, New Hampshire. A date that should not have slipped away without mention ten years ago but it did. ![]() This December, a date will come and go as just another mark on the 2019 calendar. ![]()
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