The 1945 Bombardier B-12 CS Snowmobile was designed by Joseph-Armand Bombardier and manufactured at his small company, L'Auto_Neige Bombardier Limitée. The B-12 was a 12 passenger vehicle also used for freight transport, mail deliver, school transportation as well as in the mining and logging industries. In 1959 Bombardier introduced the world to the Ski-Doo. Eventually Bombardier grew to be one of the worlds largest manufacturers of trains and planes.