DCHP-3

muskeg vehicle

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any vehicle designed to travel over muskeg (def. 2).

See: muskeg(def. 2)

Quotations

1958
[A man named Texas Smith arrived with a device designed to cross muskeg, snow, mud, and mountain; its wheels were wooden wine barrels, and it was topped off with a sleeping-platform.]
1964
"Everybody seems to be inventing machines," an Ontario Hydro official says. "We're always testing new ones, but what we really need is a combined rock and muskeg vehicle."
1966
A muskeg vehicle must be light, rugged, powerful, with good suspension systems. It should be able to steer without imparting high stresses on the muskeg.