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Admiral Byrd’s snow cruiser designed for Antarctic exploration drives through traffic. Massachusetts, 1939. (Colorized) (infosec.pub)
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[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder how many gallons to the mile that bad boy got.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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