What is this : Snow buggy ?
 

I took this pic from a frozen TV screen , it was a mid 1960's B grade science fiction movie , the plot centred around a despot who wanted to control the world.

"L’Auto-Neige Bombardier" - probably a post-war example like the one pictured below? Over to our Canadian friends who have to cope with lots of snow for a major part of the year!

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/at...=&postid=45715

Sure looks like the Penguin, a semi tracked Bombardier contraption used in Ex Musk Ox II near Fort Churchill, early-mid 50s...or am I getting it mixed up with a full tracked snow machine of an experimental type?

Snowtractor...Mark...???

It's not a Penguin. It's a civilian Bombardier snow machine that was commonly known as a Bombardier. They were common in the 60s when winter travel wasn't as sure a thing as it is now. You still see a few around being used in the oilfield but they were replaced by the Nodwells and Foremosts along with a few other makes.

bombardier museum
 

here is another website that tells alittle more. just click around the site, it is new and still in the construction stages.

http://www.northerntracks.com/histor...ombardier.html

here is a picture of a rally in northern manitoba.

thansk

And we though we collected strange things
 

I love the group with the Antigue Bombardiers. Given their location I wonder who has a longer driving season them our us.

More Bombardiers
 

I have a memory of a fleet of similar Bombardiers being used for tourist transport on a glacier in Western Canada about 40 years ago. I think it was near Lake Louise. I have no idea if they survive, but it appears that the tourists are now transported in purpose built busses running on terra tires.

Think there is a picture in National Geographic
 

Grant - You are tickling my memory and I think I remember seeing a picture of what you describe in National Geographic Magazine, I’ll ask my wife to search the data base at her library to see if she can find the picture.

That might have been on the Athabasca Glacier south of Hinton, Alberta. They use those big buses now.

Glacier
 

Could be the Columbia ice fields between Jasper and Banff, they use the Tundra busses there.
Sean

here is more info on the fun we had with a bombardier on the DOUBLE J ADVENTURES.

http://kingofobsolete.ca/Newsletter10.htm

thansk