Comments on: The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition https://offroadaction.ca/2014/01/22/the-commonwealth-trans-antarctic-expedition/ World's Largest Vintage Off Road Site! Fri, 30 May 2025 20:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David https://offroadaction.ca/2014/01/22/the-commonwealth-trans-antarctic-expedition/comment-page-1/#comment-66551 Fri, 30 May 2025 20:13:26 +0000 http://offroadaction.ca/?p=9129#comment-66551 As a child around the late 1950s or early 1960s my parents took me to see one of the snow cats and i’d like to know where it was. I suspect it was in Gloucestershire or Wiltshire (England) perhaps.

]]> By: Lisa L Dillon https://offroadaction.ca/2014/01/22/the-commonwealth-trans-antarctic-expedition/comment-page-1/#comment-49190 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:28:15 +0000 http://offroadaction.ca/?p=9129#comment-49190 I’m very interested in talking to someone who was on the expedition because I believe I have a piece of equipment used back then. It is a Heron DL Aerial and Brooks & Gatehouse handheld compass that seemed to be made for the team. I want to authenticate it was the item used by the sledging parties/aircraft tems. It could also be the prototype.

]]> By: Curtis Guise https://offroadaction.ca/2014/01/22/the-commonwealth-trans-antarctic-expedition/comment-page-1/#comment-36368 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:55:16 +0000 http://offroadaction.ca/?p=9129#comment-36368 In reply to Richard North.

Thanks for posting that link Richard, I will send you an email. I also found it here on the US Amazon site starting at .44 cents.
http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Antarctica-Commonwealth-Trans-Antarctic-Expedition/dp/B0000CK4AY?ie=UTF8&keywords=The%20Crossing%20of%20Antarctica%3A%20The%20Commonwealth%20Trans-antarctic%20Expedition%201955-58&qid=1461775914&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

]]> By: Richard North https://offroadaction.ca/2014/01/22/the-commonwealth-trans-antarctic-expedition/comment-page-1/#comment-36361 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:45:40 +0000 http://offroadaction.ca/?p=9129#comment-36361 Order your book from the UK Amazon site: the price is less than a dollar … https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Antarctica-Commonwealth-Trans-antarctic-Expedition/dp/B0007G3E46?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

]]> By: Mike MacDonald https://offroadaction.ca/2014/01/22/the-commonwealth-trans-antarctic-expedition/comment-page-1/#comment-35835 Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:22:11 +0000 http://offroadaction.ca/?p=9129#comment-35835 Hi,

Nice site and pictures. You should google Hillary Antarctic 1957 and you will find the video that you have in 5 parts in one part. I posted this to youtube a while back.

My dad was on the expedition and as it turns out, one of my friends fathers was on the expedition too – Ralph Lenton, the radio operator. Anyway, if you are really into this trip, my dad is still alive if you have questions.

He even got to climb a mountain in South Georgia Island with Sir Edmund Hillary, who I got to meet in 1992, and I presented him a picture of the Theron stuck in the ice!

Regards,

Mike MacDonald

]]> By: Four-Links – Mini’s Monte Carlo anniversary, search for the Alexandria, Trans-Antarctic Expedition, V-8 Snow Birds | discount-rims.info https://offroadaction.ca/2014/01/22/the-commonwealth-trans-antarctic-expedition/comment-page-1/#comment-11633 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:34:19 +0000 http://offroadaction.ca/?p=9129#comment-11633 […] * No doubt you’ve seen this photo of a Tucker Sno-Cat all over the web by now (perhaps even here, a few years back), but what of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition it served? For a history on that, let’s turn to Wes Kibble’s recent story in Off-Road Action. […]

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