Snowmobiles and Penguins

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Make that two unmodified ones so far - see Canadian Armoured Snowmobile:

• Museum of Armoured Forces, Kubinka, Russia
• Italian Army museum, outside Rome, Italy

Another picture of the survivor in the Kubinka Tank Museum, Russia: http://gallery.vondur.net/v/industri...02183.jpg.html

[Hanno Spoelstra]

For more pics of the survivors at Kubinka, see http://henk.fox3000.com/kubinka.htm

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Make that two unmodified ones so far - see Canadian Armoured Snowmobile:

1. Museum of Armoured Forces, Kubinka, Russia
2. Italian Army museum, outside Rome, Italy

More pics of the survivor in Rome; both pics found here.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

More pics of the survivor in Rome

...can be found on: Don Allen's / 8Hussar's Photobucket

[David Dunlop]

Oh Man! Would it ever be fun to have an Armoured Snowmobile in Winnipeg tonight!!!

[Colin Macgregor Stevens]

An Exercise Musk Ox Penguin (converted from a Cdn Armoured Snowmobile) had survived (complete less one track) and went to the Bombardier Museum in Quebec. This was an epic voyage in winter from Churchill Manitoba, up North (as far as Cambridge Bay for 3 machines including #8, and then dolwn to Edmonton.

I later found out that a large "8" was found painted inside a roof hatch, which means that in all likelyhood that this was the # 8 machine on Exercise Musk Ox (only 15 machines were apaprently converted). This would have made it the machine commanded by Captain Bob Inglis - my late father-in-law!

Sadly the museum told me years later that they have scrapped it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps someone can confirm its fate?

If it survives, it SHOULD go to the Canadian War Museum.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Colin Macgregor Stevens
Sadly the museum told me years later that they have scrapped it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps someone can confirm its fate?

Colin,

That would be a horrible reality! Bruce parker posted a few pics of it in Armoured snowmo?, which I believe originally came from/via you.

Can any can add any further information?

Regards,
Hanno

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's some snowmobile pictures in Exercise Muskox from the Google Life site.

[Kirk Armitage]

Hanno's pic showed a Muskeg carrier( engine in front) with tilting deck,drive shaft behind cab runs a cmp style winch.They have a transfer case in the back powering the winch and a driveshaft heading to the T16 diff in front. The red muskeg pictured is a tractor (engine is mounted to the rear). The armoured bombardier's had no rails to support the Boogies(must have been very heavy axles) but I have read of them being bent on their Arctic excursions. The 2 axles on the Muskeg are around 1"1/2 they need the rail for support. They are a great machine,maybe Bombardier should have used the whole axle assembly from the T16 in his design,instead of building a box to hold the diff(which is a water collector).Regardless of that these ''antiques'' which I and many others still use, designed 50 plus years ago are a testament to the '' vision'' of Bombardier.
Kirk Armitage

[gcrossley]

For those who haven't seen it, the National Film Board had a film online titled "Ordeal By Ice" which has good footage of the Armoured Snomobiles in use, and very short clips of an M7 Show Tractor and Weasel being tested.

http://nfb.ca/film/ordeal_by_ice

Enjoy

Gord

[servicepub (RIP)]

When this thread started, seven years ago, I asked for an author for the Penguin and/or Armoured Snowmobile. At the time I bragged that I had published three titles in the Weapons of War series.
Fast forward to 2010. There are now 27 titles in the series with another dozen in the pipeline. BUT, I still don't have an author for this one. Any takers?

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by gcrossley

For those who haven't seen it, the National Film Board had a film online titled "Ordeal By Ice" which has good footage of the Armoured Snomobiles in use, and very short clips of an M7 Show Tractor and Weasel being tested.

http://nfb.ca/film/ordeal_by_ice

Enjoy

Gord

Thanks Gord

That was a real find, now I'll spend a couple of hours exploring what else the NFB has when I could be out in the cold working on the trucks. Let me see 10 F with 30 mph wind, wonder how long it will take to get the shop from 40F to 60F. Just watching that film makes me shiver.

Cheers Phil

[gjamo]

They used a few Bombardiers on the Snowy Mountains Scheme in the 50s. I guess they were post war. This one photographed at the Cooma rally in 2009.
Graeme