A Novel Mail Service
A vehicle which will travel a mile a minute over ice and twenty-five miles an hour on water is to assure regular mail service to residents of the
“North-west Angle,” northern-most section of Minnesota bordering on the Lake of the Woods. For years sections of the region have been without mail service in early spring and in autumn during periods of sudden frosts and thaws. Mr William Baucha, of French Portage, has devised the machine. It looks like a motor sled but has a watertight body built to travel on ice or water. An eight-cylinder motor powers the machine, driving an air propeller like that of an airplane. The vehicle is said to go easily from ice to water or from water to ice.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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128A Novel Mail Service Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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