| Show Build Giant Snow Cruiser for South Pole Trek Adventure on rubber tires res and ancl the conquest of the Antarctic Ant Ant- nt- nt This portable airfield eld and ancl rolling laboratory will soon start arctic in a polar Pullman That's the bid Science Is making from Chicago for the South Pole via Boston Here are the toward advancing United States' States claims In the Antarctic first sketches of the monster Radio and Mast Plane Moored on Root t A Directional Antenna 1 1 ti c Chart and andS S Control Room o d Control Panel Food Storage Double Deck Bunks Tools Instruments etc S w wc c r Hood Spare Tires A Stove M l 1 Fuel Tanks S 'S 4 Welding Generator 5 t k w Retractable Wheels tea In this scientific snow juggernaut four men will spend months In the An Ant The he plane mount atop the cruiser makes it virtually a traveling air field arctic With food and fuel for a year in the cruisers cruiser's lockers they will oP opiate open opi tate t- t and hops Chops can be made from time to time for further observation A Aate Adark ate independent of base basc but in constant touch with it by way two-way ra radial I ro dark room for photography also is provided CHICAGO Aug 25 Lumbering 25 ponderously over oer the roads from Chicago to Boston will wUl go about October I 1 1 as strange a It vehicle as ever seen on land Janel or sea This snow cruiser or polar pullman is for tor forthe forthe the Byrd Antar Antarctic lc expedition which sets out for the south polar region with go government backing in Octo mid r Never Nc before ore has mi i ed I or dared try to build ai a a vehicle I which like this one will t on I Its own power over most of an Antarctic area is big as alt all th the United States plus Mexico carrying carry carry- ing four tour men provisions for tor them for tor a year and an airplane with its supplies It is is' virtually a portable portable portable port port- able airfield The snow cruiser Is being built at the Pullman plant here as The Th Antarctic Snow-Cruiser Snow Project of ot the Research Foundation of Armour Armour Armour Ar Ar- mour Institute of Technology It will cost about complete with scientific equipment Its crew of four one of whom will be Dr F. F Alton Wade expects to camp three months on the South Pole I Driving of such a vehicle from Chicago to B Boston Is Itself quite a job The bureau of public roads had to be called on to work out a route which would accommodate this juggernaut with its 55 feet of length its enormous tired rubber-tired wheels on foot 15 centers J I All AU the experience of his former trips to the polar regions with Admiral Ad Ad- miral Byrd is being incorporated into the snow cruiser by Dr Thomas Thomass Thomas Poulter t designer The polar Olar region is smooth and d s not break up into floes noes like Jike that area surrounding the North Pole Nevertheless the cruiser is designed to cross Ice crevasses 15 feet teet wide Gargantuan tires for the machine machine machine ma ma- chine are now being completed by Goodyear at Akron The cruiser will carry two spares need six tires in all First of these giants giants 10 10 f feet et high was high was recently taken from the mold at the Goodyear factory as the tire built by that thal plant Except for their hoaxer heavy construction construction con con- their smooth tread these tires are arc similar to those made for forthe forthe forthe used the famous marsh buggy in oil exploration in the swamps of Louisiana Two great Diesel engines hooked to an electric motor in each of the four wheels provide power for tor the cruiser The pilot in the central control cabin can apply power to any combination ot of one one one- two three or four wheels The machine will ill cruise easily at 12 miles an n hour on one engine climb a 35 per cent grade Jrade and turn within with with- within in a radius of 30 3 feet When the cruiser reaches the Boston navy nary yard it will be loaded on a government ship and transported transported trans tram ported to the Bay of Whales t tr r- r S 9 rj j How th the snow cruiser w will l cr cross crots s ire ice iceS r chasms It t is so built that its projecting projecting project proJect- t ing nose overhang any crevasse cre it is likely to meet If It is driven up to the edge until the fr front nt wheels reach t tta rim im Then Then Then- The front wheels are arc retracted up into body by means of hydraulic machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery inside the cruiser This lowers towers the nose of the vehicle until it rests flush on the ice on the far side Then I rear wheels push it forward until until until- I Fr Front nt wheels now being above the f far fkr r edge of the ice surface tie the rear wheels are retracted setting the rear end flush on the ice The front wheels are then extended again so that front end rests normally on its wheels wheels- I Whereupon the front wheels pull the whole thing across Once the rear wheels have cleared the farther edge of the crevasse they are arc again lowered lowered low low- ered and now the vehicle stands on all four wheels again l |
