Snowmobile

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Thanks for posting the scan of the booklet for the S/M 2561 Bombardier "Car Half Tracked Personnel" M 4659864 to 4659963. I have just been writing about the Cadillac-engined 15-cwt armoured snowmobiles to S/M 6028 as I jhave that official photo of one (the pioneer of the batch) that should be going into the new book.

Why were they sent to the UK? Because the Ministry of Supply placed an order but it seems from reading between the lines that this was possibly part of an allied review of snow vehicles in late 1941. If delivery was from spring 1942, what on earth did they do with them?

The Archives photo is dated 1943: was that therefore of the pilot "greater capacity" model that was trialled winter 1942/3?