Ford/Marmon-Herrington SnoGo

[gordon]

... of course that should read "blow snow OFF the Yellow Brick Road"

old age

[Tony Smith]

Instead, it should blow some air into those tyres!

So a Ford Marmon-Herrington is coming to Aus? That's one heck of a Big Border Raid! (Whose truck is that it's being loaded onto?)

[gordon]

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He's taking it down to middle-England-shire for onward shipment.

The tyre pressures are deliberate, as it has 1960's tyres on it, and they are 8.25 x 18, a size now only available from China (so no probs fitting new ones in Oz if required) This is the tyre size that was an option on that generation of Fords if you wanted big singles all round as opposed to dual rears. many SnoGo owners swapped to 9.00 x 20 standard Ford rims to ease tyre replacement.

It should have 100 psig all round, but I've not put more than 50 psig in them as the last thing I wanted to do was blow one of the tyres on shipment day.

Four wheel, constant four wheel drive, and no spare wheel, of course, hence extra precautions. I did try to find one spare rim for him but with no luck.

I'm not mentioning names or final destinations deliberately, but down under contingent can probably guess who has been shipping large lumps of metal from the UK for a collection down your direction. I'm very happy to have sold to him, as most other potential buyers wanted to junk the blower gear and turn it into a cargo pickup as seen on other threads, which would be a real shame on such an intact example.

[malcolm erik bogaert]

well done Gordon you deserve a medal for perseverance!regards malcolm

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hey Tim Tam - can't you see the big sign on the back of the truck, SMITH. Must be a relative of yours. I wonder whether this truck will ever see snow?

Bob

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Gordon,

Good to hear Puff has finally found a good home. I tried my best to get her to Holland, as some of these SnoGos must have been used on the RAF's Second Tactical Air Force airfields in Holland during the winter of 1944. The collector I told you about is getting very old, so he's not buying any vehicles to add to his collection anymore.

Thank you for taking such good care of this rare truck! Bart Vanderveen would have been proud of you.

Aussies, give her a warm welcome when she arrives!

Hanno

[gordon]

Now if you think of all the areas in Australia that might need a snow blower, that could be another clue to the destination...

There were about eighty of these in the UK, three or four others exist in poor condition, and at least a couple coverted to cargo truck or wrecker, but I did see an advert for one other complete intact unit from the Puff batch up in Inverness a year or three back - wonder where it went?