Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

3408-00360

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

1

Ou

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Brevets

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Description générale

Inconnu

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

238,0 cm

Largeur

96,5 cm

Hauteur

132,0 cm

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

184,2

Diamètre

S/O

Volume

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Lexique

Groupe

Transports terrestres motorisés

Catégorie

Véhicules récréatifs

Sous-catégorie

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Fabricant

Ou

Bombardier

Pays

Canada

État/province

Québec

Ville

Valcourt

Contexte

Pays

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État/province

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Période

Not used.

Canada

"In August of 1973, the one millionth Ski-Doo rolled off the assembly lines at the Bombardier plant in Valcourt. Management and staff at Alpine Distributors, along with local dealers and snowmobile racing champions, gathered at a reception at Alpine and, along with over a dozen distributorships across Canada and the U.S. listened in on a telephone conference from Valcourt. At Alpine, the call was amplified through a public address system and those present heard federal politicians and Bombardier president, Laurent Beaudoin, toast the production of the millionth Ski-Doo. A stretched track 1974 T'NT Everest model, the one millionth, was presented to Mrs. Yvonne Bombardier, widow of the inventor, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, for display in the J.A. Bombardier Museum in Valcourt. The one millionth and one machine was presented to the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa. The one millionth and two machine was set aside for Bombardier president, Laurent Beaudoin, and the one millionth and third machine was sent out to Alpine Distributors in Vernon." (ref.2)

Fonction

For travel over snow. For commemoration purposes.

Technique

"In addition to special promotional feats, there were opportunities to promote Ski-Doos by entering them into snowmobile races, which were gaining popularity in the 1960s. There was a lot of media coverage to be captured by a good showing at any one of the bigger contests, such as the World's Championship Snowmobile Derby at Eagle River in Wisconsin. In 1968, Bombardier scored some victories on this front after it introduced the vertical-twin Rotax 600 cc, the first engine its Austrian engine supplier had designed expressly for the Ski-Doo. The Ski-Doo model containing this engine was called the Track N' Trail (or TN'T) because it was designed to compete on the racetrack and be a hot performer on the trail." (ref.3) "A prototype Everest was tested on Silver Star Mountain and on Hunter's Range above Enderby. Because the Everest was designed to climb in powder and scale backcountry terrain, it was outfitted with a wide 16.5-inch track and provided 907.5 square inches of flotation. The chassis and track measured five inches longer than the standard T'NT models. The Everest track was not just wider, but replaced the traditional steel reinforcing rods with lighter, more flexible fiberglass rods. Steel was replaced with aluminum for the tunnel, though there was a steel reinforced bulkhead to hold the engine and ski mounts." (ref.2)

Notes sur la région

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Détails

Marques

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Manque

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Fini

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Décoration

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