Admiral Byrd's Cletrac

[Blake Malkamaki]

Let me give this a try. The resolution is pretty bad, but you can probably read them ok. To upload these, I had to convert them to jpegs.

Blake

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[matt lombard]

Hi All

Thanks to Blake for putting up the images of the pages from the New Zealand Antractic Journal. There's not much more I can now add to this debate, execpt to say that it would be interesting to see what corespondence is in the Byrd II Antartic Expedition files at US National Archives in Washington DC. Surely there must have been correspondence between Byrd and Cletrac both before and after the expedition.

Thanks again to all for your interest.

Matt Lombard
South Australia

[Blake Malkamaki]

There is a publication up on Ebay at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 388wt_1053 that talks about Byrd's Cletrac or Cletracs used in his expedition.

Here's the picture from Ebay:

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Blake

[matt lombard]

Hi Blake

Good spotting - so what model of Cletrac is depicted in the article on E bay advertising, looks to me to be the 40 model, thus the same Cletrac that is pictured above (no not the International!) on the wharf awaiting transport to Antartica.

Regards

Matt

[Bob]

I would say that is a 40 in the brochure.