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I took the photo at the portsmouth southsea D-day event in June 1989 . I have posted more photo's from that trip on a thread I think by the same title , I think others had made some comments about it . Thats all I know of it .

Thanks for the reply , The chains I was referring to are the large bicycle type on either side in the front engine bay area . I wish those snowtracs were still being made and sold here as they are more practical than an open snowmobile , I like snow but dont want to be OUT in it lol

I had a couple of questions about the snow trac's , What are the items mounted on the front fenders of the trac's , are they patches for the track? How many people can the trac carry ? Since these units use Volkswagen air cooled engines and I have had a Bug so I know the heat out put isn't great ..... do they add any other heating system as in electric or tap into the engine oil to keep the cab toasty . Is there an automatic oiling system for the drive chains or simply oil before each use ?

a link or two for you http://home.att.net/~medichelmet/

http://www.m-1helmet.com/Home.html

Hello Jack , Thanks for the note on the photo's . While I have searched through many archives and gathered many photo's , it would seem I am doing something wrong as I can see what I have posted is being viewed , few are commenting. I don't want to bore the members and don't want to break rules or make the Mods. mad ....I seem to spend as much time finding things as trying to find places to post them lol .

WWII period photo of navigator and his equipment

A bombadier captain plotting adjustments for wind drift in the nose of a B-17 bomber. Location: US Date taken: 1943 Photographer: Dmitri Kessel

found this on youtube and thought you might like the ad info. pages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCQPSYb5V80&feature=related

just found this on youtube and thought you might enjoy it

interesting group of service related songs in that subject

a site on the web thats pretty complete on the basic's of GMC and other vehicles

http://die-cast-army.over-blog.com/article-19482215-6.html

a new member who has connections to chieftians at this link

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?p=116185#post116185

a clip of a very wrong painted Stollie but still nice to see it doing what 6 wheels can do .

a photo I think you will like from the CCKW.org site

http://cckw.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3723

the Great Britian 1940's starting page for the Life magazine site so many period photo's you can do the search year by year and country by country still a slow process by WHAT gems ! http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=great+britain+1940%27s+source:life&&sa=N&start=20&ndsp=20

found this on another site but thought you would like the view especailly the middle of the far right row http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?imgurl=75f0286fe54c86fd

have you ever heard of this WWI device ? just found the story and thought you might be interested , seems thay were a failure and all were scraped

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showpost.php?p=3556817&postcount=79

correction Tony B.

I have located the posts just took a lot longer than I thought it would , the second was a post by Adrian Barrell http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showpost.php?p=64509&postcount=13

here is the other link no matter the time of year I read this , and of course especially as this time approches it makes the pain and loss for all so much more real http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showpost.php?p=64509&postcount=13

something that was posted last year , there is a second I m still looking for thought you might want to read

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=6598&highlight=christmas

do you still have the two christmas poems you posted last november ?

uts christmas day , all is secure and the other A different christmas poem? i tried the search but nothing came up

a little jeep tribute

found this clip some of the models are huge ! enjoy the view

ahh while looking for more information I found a wikipedia page with both civilian and military info. thought you might enjoy the reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Trac

a nice shot of the interior of a snowtrac

found this on youtube of course , nice clip of snow tracks doing what they do best , even if you have to hand crank em .