Thursday, 14 January 2010

This is a rare video of an invention that never went very far.  

Wait until you see the automobile version.

1926 Snow Tractor. Talk about ingenuity! 

This is a 1926 silent film (on video) of a tractor-snow-machine 

invented  by Henry Ford, shown here driving it. 

Watch the whole thing. Note the "hat."
 
 
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html

Posted Jan 28, 2009, 12:12:10 PM
Neat `lil flick I found on Liveleak.

(Fordson snow-motor)





Reply To This Topic #35 Posted Yesterday at 05:23:28 PM
I don't recall how many were built, but they were used (unsuccessfully) for Richard Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition.  One is on display in Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Reply To This Topic #36 Posted Yesterday at 09:15:58 PM
I don't recall how many were built, but they were used (unsuccessfully) for Richard Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition.  One is on display in Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska.