MOTOR CAR NOT SATISFACTORY
MOTOR SLEDGES RECOMMENDED.
_ CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. The motor car was not an unqualified success. The car did about 450 miles of depot laying, the class of country travelled being over sea ice, with patches of snow which varied from about six inches in depth. They had trouble with the lubricating machinery, finding that the oil froze at minus 30 degrees. It was absolutely useless to expect the car to run on the surface of tfte? barrier, as it was so soft, beingcomposed of compressed snow layers .about,one foot in depth, into which the wheels kof the car sunk to the axles. The rate of progress was about six miles per hour, but if the surface were good the car sometimes did nine and ten miles without a load. The car could do 30 miles an hour over sea ice.
Day stated definitely that the motor car was absolutely useless on the great ice barrier, and no car could run on such a varied character of country to be traversed. No car could be built light enough to go over the deposits of snow. He was of opinion that motor sledges, am iar to those to be used by the French ?i Cu IC exPedi*ion under Charcot would be very useful in Arctic exploration. \>, V
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12184, 27 March 1909, Page 8
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