[Farmall] Fw: 1926 Snow Tractor with Henry Ford Himself

[John Gustafson]

Some years ago, it was at a presenyayion of a Dodge gas turbine car I think, 
but they had displays and movies or other rhings that Chrysler was doing, 
they showed a version of an armored personell carrier using this approach. 
The movie was impresive, this thing could move and pretty much over 
everything. Swamp, water, desert, snow. Chrysler's was longer, they 
demonstrated moving sideways as well. Military never picked it up, 
preferring tracked vehicles and hovercraft but I always wondered about it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Moffat" <rogerkiwi at aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] Fw: 1926 Snow Tractor with Henry Ford Himself


>
> On Jan 16, 2010, at 9:59 PM, sajorgens at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
>> This is a really neat 1926 silent film (on video) of a tractor-snow-
>> machine invented by Henry Ford, who is shown driving it.
>>
>>
>> Watch the whole thing. Note the "hat."
>
> I very much doubt that Henry Ford is driving that.
>
> This video is from the Seeking Michigan website - a site run jointly
> by the Library of Michigan and the Archives of Michigan. Here is
> "their" version of this
>
> http://vimeo.com/2638558
>
> note the page says it's 1924, not 1926, and it's the Armstead Snow
> Motors Company who made this device.
>
> The Patent Application is here
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ckmj3o
>
> Roger
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