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Admiral Byrd’s snow cruiser designed for Antarctic exploration drives through traffic. Massachusetts, 1939. (Colorized)

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Admiral Byrd’s snow cruiser designed for Antarctic exploration drives through traffic. Massachusetts, 1939. (Colorized)

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As its use turned out to not work as intended, these are just the design numbers:
2500 US gallons / 5000 miles range = 0.5 gal/mi (= 1.2 l/km)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Snow_Cruiser#Arrival_in_the_Antarctic

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