Snowmobile

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Nigel
The Snowmobile one is earlier than Alex's but isn't the Armoured Snowmobile is the wooden curved bodied one but with the same running gear and two skiis on the front. Also a Ford V8!

Nigel,

According to the Bombardier museum website, "L’Auto-Neige Bombardier" was the name of the plant built in 1940 to cope with the increased demand for snowmobiles. Among others, they built 130 B1 snowmobiles for the Canadian Armed Forces:



Compare with the pic of the survivor in Russia:


Production of the B1 started in the spring of 1942, with most of them being shipped to the U.K. So there's the explanation for that manual turning up at Stoneleigh.

Interesting stuff, post some pictures from the manual here sometime!

Hanno