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Snow trails for Wheeled Vehicles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

E. H. Moser Jr  and
N. S. Stehle
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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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Polar Record , Volume 14 , Issue 93 , September 1969 , pp. 815 - 817
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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Moser, E. H. Jr and Sherwood, G. E. 1967. Polar transportation, snow trails for light wheeled vehicles. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory Technical Report R-540. Port Hueneme, Naval Qvil Engineering Laboratory.Google Scholar
Moser, E. H. Jr and Stehle, N. S. 1964. Compacted snow characteristics test devices and procedures. In: Science in Alaska, 1963. Proceedings of the 14th Alaskan Science Conference, Anchorage, Alaska August 1963. College, Alaska Division American Association for the Advancement of Science.Google Scholar