CAPTAIN SCOTT'S MOTOR SLEIGHS
Messrs Vickers, Sons, and Maxim's subsidiary company is constructing Captin Scott's motor sleigh 'for his. South Polar expedition.. • Theso sleighs are of somewhat unusual design', being chainr driven. There are mounted on the endless chain a. series of small platforms, carrying spuds, the chains carrying these platform's running over . wheels attached, to tho end of the axles, and sliding under runners, so that the weight of the sleigh on the ground is taken on the platforms attached to the chains, which m turn hoar on tho runners mounted on the sleigh. The ihains are driven by the back axle, whioh contains gearing." The axle** are ; carried direct on the .frame, and do nok take any other load. This method gives a powerful grip on, the snoNj, enabling the sleigh to propel itself;' and even to' 'draw a heavy trailer under bad snow'- '.conditions', With a view to economising fuela-s^mucli as possible, the engines 'are, kept small, ! being7df onl'yV-IZ horse-power. They a.re,7.bf 7 course,' .-_od|. the air-cooled sort.' The petrol tank, with capacity for a long journey, is mounted over tho 'motor.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12095, 12 March 1910, Page 5
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185CAPTAIN SCOTT'S MOTOR SLEIGHS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12095, 12 March 1910, Page 5
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