Winter transportation on the high Sierra by sno-motor

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Title	Winter transportation on the high Sierra by sno-motor
Publication Type	Conference Proceedings
Year of Conference	1944
Authors	Lang, W. A.
Conference Name	12th Annual Western Interstate Snow Survey Conference
Series Title	Proceedings of the 12th Annual Western Interstate Snow Survey Conference
Date Published	February 1944
Publisher	American Geophysical Union, Transactions, Part I:
Conference Location	Berkeley, California
Keywords	Oversnow vehicles, Sno-motor
Abstract	The ‘Snow-Motor’ owned by the Southern California Edison Company has been driven 956 miles during 245 hours running time. The cost of operation includes gasoline, oil, and repairs, amounts to $1.26 per mile during two years time. The ‘Snow-Motor’ was used to transport 35,000 lbs of 12 gage steel sheets 48 inches x 96 inches in size over deep snow 31 miles from Big Creek to Florence Lake Dam over a 9300 foot elevation summit between April 30 and May 13. A lighter and smaller ‘Snow -Motor’ has been developed. Its outstanding advantage is that the machine can be operated without a sled when necessary. Photographs show the machine in operation with the heavy load pulled on a trailer sled. Specifications and performance records are included in the text.

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