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5 unusual facts about Cummins


Cummins

The Onan name continues to be used for modern versions of their traditional engine-driven generators for RV, marine, commercial mobility, home standby, and portable use.

Janet Rumsey

Following her baseball career, Rumsey worked in the accounting department at Cummins Engine Company from 1955 until 1985.

Larry Don

It is powered by twin 1965 Cummins 220 marine diesel engines with gear-reduction transmissions and 32 inch four blade propellers.

Michael Biddle

He then went to work for Cummins Engine Company as the corporate plastics engineer before deciding to pursue his Ph.D.

Pennco Tech

The engine-focused curriculum of the Diesel/Truck Technology course examines and rebuilding techniques and troubleshooting practices for engine blocks, blowers and turbochargers on Cummins, Volvo, Caterpillar, Detroit, Penta and International Harvester engines.


Albert B. Cummins

At age nineteen, Cummins came to Iowa, working in a county recorder's office in Elkader, Iowa.

Cummins was born in a log house in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania to Thomas L. Cummins, a carpenter/farmer, and Sarah Baird (Flenniken) Cummins.

Alexis Herman

Herman also now serves on the boards of several major companies, includingThe Coca-Cola Company's Human Resources Task Force, Toyota's Diversity Advisory Board, Cummins, MGM Resorts International, Entergy, and Prudential and is the chairman and CEO of New Ventures, Inc.

Anderson Cummins

Anderson Cleophas Cummins (b. 7 May 1966 in Packers Valley, Christ Church, Barbados) is a former international cricketer who represented both the West Indies and Canada.

Compressed air foam system

By the mid-1980s, research by the United States Bureau of Land Management in co-operation with Mark Cummins, led to modern design features of rotary air compressors, centrifugal pumps, and direct-injection foam-proportioning systems (Fornell, 1991; IFSTA, 1966).

Crown Coach Corporation

Working with Tanner Grey Line of Los Angeles, Crown designed the well-known Art Deco coach that eventually led to a school coach using unibody construction, mid-ship underfloor mounted commercial truck engines (often by Detroit Diesel or Cummins; a handful of them had Caterpillar engines) and off-the-shelf Class 8 truck parts, which made them economical to operate.

DAF LF

The LF45 and LF55 are powered by Cummins B4.5 and B6.7 engines respectively, and the LF shares its cab with the Renault Midlum and the Volvo FL.

Deborah S. Cummins

Deborah S. Cummins, Ph.D. is the Director of Research and Evidence Analysis at the American Dietetic Association, a voting member of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, and Adjunct Faculty in the Medical Humanities Program, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, IL.

Dodge LCF Series

A range of Dodge and International Harvester gasoline engines were available, as were diesels from Perkins (for lighter variants), Cummins, Caterpillar, and Detroit Diesel for the heaviest duty versions, both six-cylinder and V8 versions.

Eagle Bus

At the time of this writing, all three models are available with a choice of Cummins, Detroit Diesel Series 60, or Caterpillar engines.

Ford Transcontinental

Assembled almost entirely from bought in OEM component parts (e.g., cab shell from Berliet, engine from Cummins, transmission from Eaton) it was introduced to fill a perceived gap in the market in anticipation of the relaxation of weight restrictions on HGVs, and as such had a very strong chassis and heavy duty suspension.

Hugh Gordon Cummins

His outstanding achievement was the abolition of the Located Labourers Act and he is commemorated by the naming of the ABC Highway and the Gordon Cummins Hospital in St. Thomas, the constituency that he represented.

Ingersoll Power Equipment

In the late 1990s the tried and true, yet obsolete and expensive Onan twin cylinder engine was abandoned for the Briggs & Stratton Vanguard OHV twin.

John Morphett

Morphett was born in London, the second son of Nathaniel Morphett, a solicitor, and his wife Mary, née Gliddon, of Cummins, Ide, Devon, and was educated at Plymouth and Highgate Grammar Schools.

In 1921, the area, which also included that part of Cummins Estate where Cummins House is located, was renamed to Novar Gardens to honour Viscount Novar, (who as Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson was the sixth Governor-General of Australia from 1914 to 1920).

John Stephen Cummins

On February 26, 1974, Cummins was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento and titular bishop of Lambaesis by Pope Paul VI.

Kim Schraner

Schraner co-starred with Martin Cummins in the pilot for the series, which was not picked by Fox, as hoped by the producers.

Light Townsend Cummins

Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. commissioned Cummins a Kentucky Colonel in honor of his publications dealing with the history of the Mississippi Valley.

In 2003, Cummins served as historical consultant and on-camera commentator for Louisiana: A History, a six-episode television series celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, a series produced by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and aired nationally by PBS.

Cummins was awarded the Francisco Bouligny Prize for his publications dealing with Spanish colonial Louisiana and is a lifetime fellow of the Texas State Historical Association.

MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women

MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women (CCOEW) is an engineering college in Pune, Maharashtra, India run by the Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha.

Paul Cummins

Throughout the history of Irish basketball thus far, Cummins was one a very small number of Irish-born male players to ever earn a basketball scholarship to an American NCAA Division I college (Lafayette College) under head Coach Fran O'Hanlon.

After graduating in 2008, Cummins played for the City of Edinburgh Kings basketball club where he won the Scottish National Cup, was the Scottish cup final MVP (24 points), was named 'National-League Import Player of the Year' and finished as the Scottish league's top scorer at 26 ppg.

Cummins is a qualified performance psychologist, having received his MSc degree in 2009 from the University of Edinburgh.

Peggy Cummins

Cummins's last film, in 1961, was Darcy Conyers's In the Doghouse alongside Leslie Phillips.

Reformed Episcopal Church

Bishop Cummins describes the evolution in his understanding of these influences within the church and prayer book in a letter to Bishop Cheney, where he cites earlier attempts to create reforms within the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Stan Cummins

In January of that year Boro beat Newcastle United 4-2 at St. James Park and Cummins scored Boro's fourth goal prompting match commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme to say another of his famous one liners.

Stress Factor 9

Randy Rampage and Duane Chaos have performed live several times since with Randy joining 22nd Century on stage and also playing with Jon Card of SNFU and Jimmy Cummins or I, Braineater for a special show in Vancouver, their home town.

Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II

The Fighter Exchange Program is intended to be a tie-in to the Career Mode of the EA Sports MMA game, and features multimedia documentation of four young prospects (Bettega, Cummins, Martytniuok, Phillips) traveling, learning, and training with four established veterans (Jacare Souza, Jason Miller, Gegard Mousasi, Luke Rockhold).

Thirroul Railway Depot

In 1918 John Kerr Cummins, then a 34 year old fireman stationed at Thirroul was injured when he was operating the turntable for his train at Macdonaldtown in Sydney.

Transport in Barbados

The most popular highway throughout the island is the A. B. C. Highway (Adams/Barrow/Cummins).

Willie Cummins

Cummins’s sons, Kevin, Ray and Brenadan, all wore the red jersey of Cork at various levels from the 1960s until the 1980s.

World's Fastest Pickup

In 2002, a 5.9 L Cummins diesel-powered pickup, modified by Gale Banks and his company Gale banks engineering set an FIA-certified land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a one-way pass of 222-mph and a combined two-way speed of 217-mph.


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