From: Auke Dijkstra (auke.dijkstra@wxs.nl)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 10:35:23 PST
Hi Bill,
I've read some stories about truckers driving Kenworth's in the early '50's
in a magazine.
They went from Oregon to Alaska every other week, sleeping in Hotels while
letting their
diesel engines run all night. Another story was about operating Caterpillar
D7 and D8's
and heating up the oil before an oil change and never stop the engine longer
then 15 minutes, I don't know if these stories were true.
There were some stories in earlier Wheels and Tracks magazines about a bunch
of guys
(MVPA?) along the Alaska Highway in '40-'45 vehicles, maybe there are guys
on this list that know more about this.
Regards,
Auke
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Chambers" <bchambers@hoovers.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: dinsdag 18 februari 2003 19:19
Subject: [MV] speaking of Snow
> History Channel had a great show on the building of the Alaskan highway
(oil
> can highway) during WW2.
> Actually went into the problems with permafrost and other conditions that
> met the military vehicles.
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> Question: Were there modifications made to the dueces and bulldozers and
> such to work in those conditions?
> If so, what would have been done to keep them from frozen death?
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> Also, has anyone been on it in the last several years? Sounds like a great
> historic drive, and was wondering if there is any remains, musuems, stops
> that I could plan for?
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> regards,
> Bill
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