1926 Snow Tractor - rare original video of an invention by Henry Ford

[snowdance]

This is really interesting, but long to watch- about 10 minutes!


1926 Snow Tractor - rare original video of an invention by Henry Ford that
never went very far.
1926 Snow Tractor You're not gonna believe this................Talk
about ingenuity! This
is a 1926 silent film (on video) of a tractor-snow-machine invented by
Henry Ford, who is shown driving it.
Watch the whole thing. Note the "hat and tie."!



http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html

 

[wags]

Cool stuff for it's day. This has been posted here several times in the past several years and it's still cool to look at.

 

[uncle_ed]

I believe that it is a misconception that Henry Ford invented it as they used the fordson major as the platform for that model. They also fitted a chevy car body to it as well. There is some good reading on this concept and the inventer you see there of the Armstead snow-motor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-propelled_vehicle