# Does Bombardier Corp. Still use the "gear logo"?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-bombardier-corp-still-use-the-gear-logo/286133 "2005-01-22T20:01:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-bombardier-corp-still-use-the-gear-logo/286133/1 "2005-01-22T20:01:04Z")

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For ages, the [Bombardier](http://www.bombardier.com) corporation used a corporate logo of a stylized gear wheel. It’s visible on the [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier). A little over a year ago, Bombardier spun off its Recreational Products Division (to great public fuss - the company was founded to market the newly-invented snowmobile), which today uses a different logo, visible on [their website](http://www.brp.com/).

On the parent company’s page, I can’t find the old gear-logo anymore. Did they discontinue it? If so, does anybody know why, and if it was related to the sale of BRP? I always thought it was one of the cooler corporate logos, myself. I don’t know how many railcars out there are embossed with it.