Assembly operations began in the plant in 1975, with the manufacture of electronic outboard motor components following two years later.
Mechanical power is provided by a demountable outboard motor mounted on a sliding bracket on the port side of the transom.
The boat used an outboard motor that was could be disconnected and stowed in the bottom half when the halves were reassembled for towing.
To move around on the water the ranger had an inflatable dinghy with an outboard motor.
Until the middle 1950s inflatables were still rafts in civilian use, hand paddled but the outboard motor came into use in the early 1950s.
Fishermen harvest their catch in the waters near the coast, using the traditional, small seagoing canoe, to which an outboard motor has been added.
The four-oared yal is rigged with a split-lug sail on a single mast, and sometimes can be supplied with outboard motor.
For each liter of fuel consumed, the average outboard motor produces 140 times less the hydrocarbons produced by the average modern car.
