A blow-out of a giant 1.5-metre tyre on a Delta truck near McMurdo Base in the Antarctic transformed a quick visit to the Erebus ice caves into a full-day trip for off-duty sightseers from the base, recently. There was no apparent reason for the blow-out, a rare happening in Antarctica. The pictures show a replacement wheel (top) beside the truck after being brought from McMurdo Base by a front-end loader and. bottom, the wheel, more than a metre wide being fitted.
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Press, 13 November 1982, Page 11
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81A blow-out of a giant 1.5-metre tyre on a Delta truck near McMurdo Base in the Antarctic transformed a quick visit to the Erebus ice caves into a full-day trip for off-duty sightseers from the base, recently. There was no apparent reason for the blow-out, a rare happening in Antarctica. The pictures show a replacement wheel (top) beside the truck after being brought from McMurdo Base by a front-end loader and. bottom, the wheel, more than a metre wide being fitted. Press, 13 November 1982, Page 11
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