Barber Motorcycle Museum: Cushman Motor Scooters
What started from two cousins, Everett and Clinton Cushman building farming machinery and two-cycle boat engines in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1901 developed into one of the most well known commercial and industrial vehicle companies. Used in factories, the military, airports and even on the links, Cushman vehicles are everywhere. Golf cart, anyone?
From the mid 1930s through the late 1960’s, the Cushman company also produced some of the most charming 2 and 3-wheeled motor scooters with model names like the Eagle, Model 53 Airborne and the Pacemaker.
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Aren’t Cushmans full of cool! There used to be (and still might be) a large gathering of Cushman owner in Carlisle each summer. So great to see a group of them riding down the street!
That cushman is really just a proto-ruckus 🙂
It’s Grampa Ruckus.
“When I was a young’n, we had 9 horsepower and we was thankful!”
hi i have an old 3 wheeler like that one in above photo that says ice cream 5 cents i have no info on it and can’t seem to find any like model name and years made etc any help would be appreciated thanks dale
Hi Dale- Why don’t you email a few pictures to the folks at the Barber Museum? They’d probably help you out.
thank you – nice site
Hi, I was looking at the red Cushman Model 53 Airborne pictured here on your website (at the right, foreground in the above photo). I have the exact same make/model and so was curious if you know what year this was manufactured? Thank you, Jon