Recover your password. Get help. The Fast Lane Truck. Home News. The Nissan Titan dropped the Cummins diesel engine. Popular Posts. Latest Reviews. Andre Smirnov - November 12, 0. If you want a comfortable truck camper or a motorhome AND you wish to go off the November 6, September 18, August 28, August 26, August 10, Latest News. Nathan Adlen - October 20, 0. March 13, February 16, Video: Is The Honeymoon Over? These Are the Things I Love Fortunately for Clessie Cummins, a self-taught mechanic and inventor, his vision was shared by someone with the financial resources to make it a reality: William Glanton W.
Irwin, a successful local banker and investor, who already had provided financial backing for Mr. After a decade of fits and starts, during which time the diesel engine failed to take hold as a commercial success, a stroke of marketing genius by Clessie Cummins helped save the company.
Cummins mounted a diesel engine in a used Packard limousine and on Christmas day in took W. Still, publicity alone could not carry the company; Cummins needed reliable products and a sound business organization. Irwin Miller, great-nephew of W. Irwin, became general manager in and went on to lead the company to international prominence over the next four decades. By marketing high-quality products through a unique nationwide service organization, the company earned its first profit in By the s, America had embarked on a massive interstate highway construction program, with Cummins engines powering much of the equipment that built the roads and thousands of the trucks that began to roll down them.
Truckers demanded economy, power, reliability, and durability, and Cummins responded. By combining lab-based research and field-based trials, including dramatic performances at the Indy races, Cummins achieved technological breakthroughs, including the revolutionary PT pressure-time fuel injection system of As Cummins continued to grow its business in the United States, the company also began looking beyond its traditional borders.
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