Snow trails for Wheeled Vehicles
In the early days of United States activities at McMurdo, tracked vehicles were used for station transport of men and supplies. These functioned well, if slowly and expensively, over snow and ice but were impractical over land because of track wear. Wheeled vehicles were introduced but, while satisf...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400065402 2024-03-03T08:48:15+00:00 Snow trails for Wheeled Vehicles Moser, E. H. Stehle, N. S. 1969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400065402 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400065402 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 14, issue 93, page 815-817 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1969 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400065402 2024-02-08T08:45:23Z In the early days of United States activities at McMurdo, tracked vehicles were used for station transport of men and supplies. These functioned well, if slowly and expensively, over snow and ice but were impractical over land because of track wear. Wheeled vehicles were introduced but, while satisfactory over earth roads, very quickly bogged down in snow; this difficulty was to some extent solved by the substitution of high flotation, chevron-tread, or ribbon-tread (sand) tires, for conventional tires. By 1966, the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL) had developed high-strength, heavy-duty snow roads capable of supporting vehicles weighing up to 31 500 kg, and wheeled vehicles replaced tracked vehicles for station use. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Cambridge University Press Polar Record 14 93 815 817 |
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In the early days of United States activities at McMurdo, tracked vehicles were used for station transport of men and supplies. These functioned well, if slowly and expensively, over snow and ice but were impractical over land because of track wear. Wheeled vehicles were introduced but, while satisfactory over earth roads, very quickly bogged down in snow; this difficulty was to some extent solved by the substitution of high flotation, chevron-tread, or ribbon-tread (sand) tires, for conventional tires. By 1966, the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL) had developed high-strength, heavy-duty snow roads capable of supporting vehicles weighing up to 31 500 kg, and wheeled vehicles replaced tracked vehicles for station use. |
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