Job
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I came across this topic of interest about halfway through Commander Byrd's "Little America":
"The performance of the snowmobile is gratifying. Arnold Clark is doing a good job with it. It is nothing more than a ford chassis, fitted with skis in front and double caterpillar treads behind. It has attained a speed as high as 25 miles per hour on the smooth Barrier surface, and, in hauling loads from the barrier cache to the base, has equalled the work of five or six dog teams. I wish we had another."
Apparently, our engineer (and sharp-eyed researcher who dug up the web reference) on the Starkweather-Moore Expedition may have worked a miracle in locating 5 of these units for our trip.
Of course, I haven't mentioned the troubles that the Byrd Expedition later had with the snowmobiles...
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Job (the tortured one).
"The performance of the snowmobile is gratifying. Arnold Clark is doing a good job with it. It is nothing more than a ford chassis, fitted with skis in front and double caterpillar treads behind. It has attained a speed as high as 25 miles per hour on the smooth Barrier surface, and, in hauling loads from the barrier cache to the base, has equalled the work of five or six dog teams. I wish we had another."
Apparently, our engineer (and sharp-eyed researcher who dug up the web reference) on the Starkweather-Moore Expedition may have worked a miracle in locating 5 of these units for our trip.
Of course, I haven't mentioned the troubles that the Byrd Expedition later had with the snowmobiles...
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Job (the tortured one).