The Antarctic Snow Cruiser

Books
• The House of Goodyear - A Story of Rubber and of Modern Business - © 1943 By Hugh Allen / The Corday & Gross Company.
  one paragraph of text, one photo - pages 157-158, photo page 151
• The House of Goodyear - Fifty Years of Men and Industry - © 1949 By Hugh Allen / The Corday & Gross Company.
  two paragraphs of text - pages 238-239
• 90° South - The Story of the American South Pole Conquest - © 1959 By Paul Siple / G.P. Putnam's Sons.
  miscellaneous text references - pages 65-67
• The Last Explorer - The Adventures of Admiral Byrd - © 1968 By Edwin P. Hoyt / The John Day Company.
  miscellaneous text references - pages 342-344
• Antarctica, My Destiny - A Personal History by the Last of the Great Polar Explorers - © 1979 By Captain Finn Ronne / Hastings House, Publishers.
  miscellaneous text references and two photos - pages 96-99
• Over The Years - 1978 By Thomas Charles Poulter.
  Dr. Poulter's memoirs - includes his account of the Snow Cruiser's history with three drawings and four pages of photos - pages 77-83,115-121
• Mammoth Vehicles of the World - Land, Sea & Air - © 1982 by John H. Bradner
  three paragraphs of text, some specifications and one photo - page 11
• Weird Cars - © 1983 Krause Publications, Inc.
  Snow Cruiser: It's all Yours ... Go Get It - By Bob Lichty - pages 294-296
• Polar Record 23(143) - 1986
  Dr. Poulter's Antarctic Snow Cruiser - (photos) pages 129-141
• Ice. The Antarctic Diary of Charles F. Passel - © 1995 Texas Tech University Press
  
  miscellaneous text references and photos - pages 36,46 plates 3,12,18,19,20
• Atlantis Found - A Dirk Pitt® Novel - © 1999 by Clive Cussler / G.P. Putnam's Sons
  A Fiction / Adventure novel set in 2001 where the resurrected snow cruiser helps save the world
  

Periodicals (Period)

• The Traveller, (GE Transportation Department, Erie, internal publication) - August 1939
  $150,000 Giant Snow Cruiser for U. S. Antarctic Expedition to Have G-E Electric Drive
• Mechanical Engineer - September 1939
  The Antarctic Snow Cruiser - pages 684-685
• Automotive Industries - August 1, 1939 - Vol. 81, No. 3
  For The Antarctic - page 128
• Automotive Industries - September 1, 1939 - Vol. 81, No. 5
  For Antarctic Duty - page 234
• Automotive Industries - September 15, 1939 - Vol. 81, No. 6
  Construction of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser - pages 266-267
• Popular Mechanics - October 1939 - Vol. 72, No. 4
  Snow Cruiser to Explore Antarctic - Cover, pages 494-495, 151A
  
• LIFE Magazine - October 30, 1939
  Admiral Byrd, Greatest Polar Adventurer Goes to Claim Antarctica - pages 27-31, 34, 37-38
• Automotive Industries - November 1, 1939 - Vol. 81, No. 9
  Nearing Completion - page 501
• LIFE Magazine - November 13, 1939
  Giant Snow Cruiser Comes to Grief in Ohio Cow Pasture - (photos) page 28
• Automotive Industries - November 15, 1939 - Vol. 81, No. 10
  Cummins Engine Co. advertisment - Snow Cruiser - page 555
• Popular Science - November 1939 - Vol. 135, No. 5
  Planting the Stars and Stripes in the Antarctic - pages 63-66
• Armour Engineer and Alumnus - December, 1939
  Shakedown Cruise By Francis W. Godwin - pages 10-16, 46-47
• Armour Engineer and Alumnus - December, 1939
  Economy Fuse and Manufacturing Co. advertisment - The Snow Cruiser, Bound for the South Pole - page ?
• Wingfoot Clan (Goodyear internal publication) - December 20, 1939
  Old St. Nick Goes Modern By Bob Shulz - Cartoon of Santa arriving via the Snow Cruiser - page 2
• MoToR Magazine - December, 1939
  MoToR Rides the Snow Cruiser, First Hand Impressions of How World's Largest Automobile Is Operated - By Harold F. Blanchard - (photos) pages 32-34, 80, 82, 87
• Time Magazine - March 25, 1940
  Exide batteries advertisment - When motoring to the South Pole.... Rely on Exide - page 79
• Meccano Magazine - April 1940 - Vol. XXV No. 4
  The Antarctic Snow Cruiser - page 171
• LIFE Magazine - April 15, 1940
  Exide batteries advertisment - A message to car owners... from the Antarctic - page 46
• Popular Mechanics - June 1940 - Vol. 73, No. 6
  Explorers 'See Antarctica' by Plane and Sled, Little America Settles Down for Long Winter - pages 814-815
• LIFE Magazine - July 8, 1940 - Vol. 9 No. 2
  Expedition to the Antarctic - page 27-33
• Western Society of Engineers - 1940
  The Antarctic Snow Cruiser

Periodicals

• Science & Mechanics - January 1964
  Lost, One Snow Cruiser By J. C. Phillips - page 76
• Wings - February 1980 - Vol. 10, No. 1
  The Eagle & The Turtle - (photos) pages 10-17
• Power Team (Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, Indiana internal publication) - September/October 1980
  The Way We Were, part XI - Adventure at the South Pole: How to sink a white elephant - pages 6-8
• Special-Interest Autos - April 1982 - No. 68
  Oldies but Goodies - For The Byrd's - page 72
• Wheels of Time - July-August 1983 - Vol. 4, No. 4
  Snow Cruiser ... Available free if you fetch it - page 12
• Popular Mechanics - August 1984 - Vol 161, No. 8
  Letters to the Editor - Another lost-in-ice mystery - page 8
• Special-Interest Autos - June 1985 - No. 87
  Byrd's Big Bertha, The Ultimate Snowmobile - pages 70-75
• American Heritage of Invention & Technology - Winter 1993 - Vol. 8, No. 3
  Postfix - The Antarctic Snow Cruiser - pages 63-64, Back Cover
• Old Cars Weekly - January 27, 1994
  The Snowless Journey of the Snow Cruiser - (photos) pages 20-21
• Reminisce - November-December 1994
  Did You Know? - World's Largest 'Snowmobile' Was a Bust - page 19
• Reminisce - January-February 1995
  ReminiSent - Frozen in Time - page 4
• The Lincoln Highway Forum - Spring-Summer 1995
  A 1930's Buck Rogers Fantasy: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser - page 30-35
• Reminisce - July-August 1996
  Admiral Byrd Led These Servicemen South - pages 39-40
• The Christian Science Monitor - April 16, 1998
  Whatever Happened To...? - Antarctic Explorer Snow Cruiser Proved to Be a Lemon - page 18

Brochures and Literature

• The Snow Cruiser, Antarctic Expedition, Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology, Project No, 1-69 - 1939
  Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology - 8½ x 11 inches - 28 pages
  Back Front
• The Snow Cruiser, Antarctic Expedition, Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology, Project No. 1-69 - 1939
  The Dumore Co. - 7 x 6 inches - 4 pages
  Back Front

• The Snow Cruiser, Antarctic Expedition, Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology, Project No. 1-69 - 1939
  Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology - 7 x 6 inches - 4 pages
  Back Front

Newspaper Articles and Press Releases (Period)

• Listed by Date and Source
  (with links to online text and photos)
• Public Relations Information On Project No. 1-69, Antarctic Snow Cruiser - 1939
  Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology - 8½ x 11 inches - 1 page

Newspaper Articles

• The Lima News * source not verified * - October 11, 1987
  Crash on Lincoln Highway Gomer࣬aim to fame - (w/photos)
• The Beacon Journal (Akron) - November 4, 2002
  Massive Road Hog - Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a sight to behold... (w/photo)

Photos (Period)

• Left Rear 3/4 View - B/W Fralick Photo No. B5
  believed to have been taken at Pike Run near Gomer, Ohio on October 30, 1939
  
• Left Rear 3/4 View - B/W Fralick Photo No. B6
  believed to have been taken at Pike Run near Gomer, Ohio on October 29, 1939
  
• Left Side View - B/W Fralick Photo No. B8
  believed to have been taken at Pike Run near Gomer, Ohio on October 29 or 30, 1939
  
• Right Side View - B/W origin unknown
  believed to have been taken at Pike Run near Gomer, Ohio on October 29 or 30, 1939
  
• Right Side View - B/W from the collection of the late Joseph Joy Woodburn and Iva Conn Woodburn
  believed to have been taken by Joseph Joy Woodburn at Pike Run near Gomer, Ohio on October 29 or 30, 1939
  
• Front Left 3/4 View - B/W origin unknown
  believed to have been taken in Upper Sandusky, Ohio on November 1, 1939
  
• Left Side 3/4 View - B/W origin unknown
  believed to have been taken in Upper Sandusky, Ohio on November 1, 1939
  
• Right Side 3/4 View - B/W November 4, 1939 - Conneaut, Ohio
  This picture was taken on Harbor St. as the Cruiser was turning off State St. going along Route 20 toward Main Street
  
• Front View - B/W November 11, 1939 - Albany, N.Y.
  believed to have been taken in Albany, New York on November 11, 1939
  
• Right Side 3/4 View - B/W origin unknown
  
• Right Side 3/4 View - B/W origin unknown
  
• Left Side View - B/W origin unknown
  
• Right Side 3/4 View - B/W origin unknown
  
• Front Left 3/4 View - B/W November 13 or 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  This picture was taken at the Army Pier
  
• Left Side 3/4 View - B/W November 13 or 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  This picture was taken at the Army Pier
  
• Right Side 3/4 View - B/W November 13 or 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  This picture was taken at the Army Pier
  
• Right Side 3/4 View - B/W November 13 or 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  This picture was taken at the Army Pier
  
• Left Rear Side View - B/W November 13 or 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  This picture was taken at the Army Pier
  
• Left Rear 3/4 View - B/W November 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  Snow Cruiser on the deck of the North Star taken at the Army Pier
  
• Left Front 3/4 View - B/W November 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  Snow Cruiser on the deck of the North Star taken at the Army Pier
  
• Right Front View - B/W November 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  Snow Cruiser on the deck of the North Star taken at the Army Pier
  
• Right Side View - B/W November 14, 1939 - Boston, Mass.
  Snow Cruiser on the deck of the North Star taken at the Army Pier
  

Film and Video

• Century of Flight - Aircraft and Exploration - 19XX ? Discovery Channel, Inc.
  Documentary - Two short clips of the Snow Cruiser appear in this episode
  - B/W, 60 Min.
• Old Bucyrus Video - 1996 Bucyrus Historical Society
  Compilation of period films - Includes a 20 second clip of the Snow Cruiser passing through Crawford County on the Lincoln Highway
  - B/W, silent, 100 Min.
• From Armour Institute To Little America With Byrd And Poulter - 1939 ?
  Documentary - The Institute, the Snow Cruiser, and the Beechcraft Staggerwing appear in this film
  - B/W, silent, 9 Min.
• Antarctic Snow Cruiser - Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology - 1939 Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology
  Documentary - Construction, testing and loading of the Snow Cruiser. The Beechcraft Staggerwing also appears in this film
  - B/W, silent, 13 Min.

Other

• Photocard by Ray D. Gottfried
  Antarctic Snow Cruiser on W. Wynadot Ave. in Upper Sandusky, Ohio on November 1, 1939
  - B/W Photo by Wm. Everhart
  
• Photocard by Ray D. Gottfried, 1996
  Antarctic Snow Cruiser - entering Upper Sandusky, Ohio on November 1, 1939
  - B/W Photo by Wm. P. Reile
  
• Collectors Photocard by Ray D. Gottfried, 1996
  Antarctic Snow Cruiser of 1939
  - Color Photos courtesy of Theadore A. Petras, U.S.M.C.
  
• Collectors Photocard by Ray D. Gottfried, 1996
  Antarctic Snow Cruiser Model - Built by Ray D. Gottfried, September 1995
  - Color Photos
  
• Postal Reply Card by Fidelity Stamp Co. - postmarked September 24, 1939, Washington, D.C.
  advertising for South Pole Cover
  Photo - Right Side View - B/W
  
• Postal Cover - postmarked October 25, 1939, Chicago, Ill. & November 20, 1939, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Drawings - Right Side 3/4 View and Map of Route from Chicago to Boston - B/W
  
• South Pole Cover - postmarked May 6, 1941, Boston Mass.
  Drawing - Right Side View - B/W
  
• South Pole Cover - postmarked December 25, 1957, South Pole Station, Antarctica.
  Retrieved during Operation Deepfreeze
  Drawing - Right Side View - B/W
  

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Thanks!

I would like to thank all who have helped me assemble this list. All of the individuals and organizations who have brought items to my attention, helped me locate items, donated items, and shared information from their collections with me. Special thanks to:

William Dirnberger	Douglas Garrett
Albert Emery - albert.j.emery@lmco.com	Ray Gottfried - gottfried@udata.com
Irwin Fieldhouse	Robert Hensel
Wendy Gallagher	Peter Youngman
Jason Leach	Harold Mellinger Jr.
William R. Mischler	Antarctica New Zealand
Illinois Institute of Technology - Research Institute

Thanks!