Clessie Lyle Cummins incorporated Cummins Engine Co


Monday 3rd February 1919

Clessie Lyle Cummins incorporated Cummins Engine Co. The Columbus, Indiana company focused on developing the engine invented 20 years earlier by Rudolf Diesel, but in spite of several well publicized endurance trials, it was not until 1933 that they introduced the successful Model H, used in small railroad switchers. In the post WWII U.S. road building boom Cummins, with their N Series engines, became the leader in heavy duty truck engines, from 1952 to 1959 they had more than half the market.


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