PAGE 3 - RESERRECTING RUPP

A customer from Rapid City, South Dakota and I traveled to Cleveland, Ohio to meet with Mr Joe Hrudka, “H & H Snowmobiles”, The owner of the remains of Rupp Industries.  Within our trip we stopped at Lincoln, Nebraska and visited The Kawasaki Snowmobile Manufacturing Plant to acquire ideas on the operation of producing snowmobiles and the use of tooling.

At Cleveland, Ohio we spent two days looking over the operations of H & H Snowmobiles including evaluating the parts and accessories inventory, sales records and analyzing methods of transportation to Rapid City, South Dakota which was estimated at about 20 semi loads.

According to the records of H&H Snowmobiles, the approximate quantity of snowmobiles sold by Rupp Industries during their lifetime is as follows, however some of these figures are not the same as revealed by Mick Rupp and other sources obtained throughout this writing.

1965……………………..500                     1972..........................40,000

1966……………………1,000                    1973..........................30,000

1967……………………3,500                    1974..........................25,000

1968…………………..12,000                   1975..........................20,000

1969…………………..20,000                   1976..........................30,000

1970…………………..28,000                   1977............................5,000

1971…………………..31,000                   1978............................1,500