Founded in 1919, Cummins has passed 95 years, halcyon, and the glory. Historical accumulation and Generations of Cummins staff joint efforts have established Cummins to the world largest independent engine manufacturers. Real success never shortcut, today’s achievement comes from the accumulation of solid one step at a time. Today we take a trip together to Cummins history showroom, and see Cummins has what kind of story?
To go the Cummins history showroom, we set off from Indianapolis, Indiana, to the South, through a cornfield which under the blue sky, and white clouds on the highway, we can appreciate the scenery along the way.
After an hour, we arrived in Columbus smoothly. When we get out of the car, we can see a storeroom. Don’t be hesitating, the storeroom is the Cummins showroom, as showroom of manufacturers is a little different.
Pushed the door and entered the house, the first printed into eye is a antique car. It’s car of Mr. Klein Cummins who is Cummins founder. And it used Cummins diesel engine. Many years ago, Mr. Cummins must be proud of that he drive this car travel through America.
Even though this showroom is not big, we also can see the different periods of Cummins engine: automotive engine, construction engines, Marine engine etc., except for these, I also found publicity materials of Cummins different periods product, these quite has historical feeling, and greatly to widen my horizon.
And then, we can see the last exhibit—The Numbers 28 “Diesel Special” racing car for Cummins Diesel engine. Many year ago, the car has created a new record for the Indianapolis 500 car Racing preliminaries at 139 miles (224 kilometers) an hour, the machine equipped with Cummins 430 horsepower engine, fully shows the that year latest technology – the advantage of turbocharged and PT fuel pump.
If you like engine technology, you can go around here, the showroom narrator will tells the story of each exhibit for you carefully.