S TEN MEDFORD (OBECON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday. February 12, 1950
1 Australian Order Shows Wide Demand For Tucker Sno-Cats
Further evidence of the world
wide acceptance of the Tucker
Sno-Cat and of Its Increasing
reputation for efficient over
snow travel was shown recently
when two of the sturdy Med-ford-made
vehicles were loaded
aboard a large Pierce Freight
lines truck and transported to
San Francisco for shipment to
Australia.
The single-drive freighter mod
elsewhere sent to Horrocks, Rox
burgh, Pty., Ltd., Melbourne,
agent for the state electricity
commission of Victoria. This
agent has also ordered two more
double drive Sno-Cats.
Many Orders
Tucker Sno-Cat corporation
has also filled orders from India,
Norway and Canada, as well as
from eastern, Rocky mountain,
great plains and western moun
tain states of this country. Those
using the machines all report
orpnt success, according to Pres
ident E. M. Tucker.
Files at tne manuiaciuniiK
plant on highway 99 south of
Mcdford are now jam-packed
with orders. In fact, Tucker re
ported, popularity of the Sno
Cat is such that the corporation
would do a tremendous business
if all orders could be filled.
Tucker declared that this poten
tial market points toward a vast
manufacturing program calling
for large facilities.
Sees 2.500 Workers
He expressed the strong belief
that the corporation could use
9 ftnri mnlrwppn in fill the de
mand by the firm in its almost
four years of business and devel
opment here. Today the company
averages 25 exployees. Tucker
oai it has rnnrhfH thp HtatllJl of
a million dollar industry and is
on tne tnresnnoia ui uwa hiw
duction. Facilities are available
to increase production.
Tucker and his sons; Emmctt
Jr., Jasper and Morris, came to
Medford in 1946, and with the
help of prominent businessmen
have developed the growing en
terprise. The inventor has put in
his entire time building and im-
.inn 4ha Poi Tho firm has
two buildings and exp.-i.ts to be
operating at tun capacity nexi
fall. Lack of capital and mater
ial shortages through strikes
have delayed expansion of the
business, according to Tucker.
Best Locality
He said his corporation has
proved that the Sno-Cat can be
produced in Jackson county at
much greater efficiency than in
other localities because of the
lower class of freight rates on
raw materials, the better labor
situation and the desirability of
the Rogue river valley as a
home.
Tucker's latest development Is
the four-pontoon, double-drive
machine on which testing com
menced two years ago. It is built
for travel in deep, fluffy snow
drifts and for climbing steep
hills. He stated that this Sno
Cat model will negotiate up to a
100 per cent (45 degree) grade.
I The vehicle has finger tip
hydraulic control.
Demonstrations Given
Morris Tucker, chief engineer
for demonstrations and sales, is
now showing the abilities of the
double-drive model to agencies
in the northern states of the
middlewest. His father said that
utility companies are finding
that it will do all it is represent
ed to do and more.
Reports have been rolling In
rapidly from persons to whom
the machine was demonstrated,
the elder Tucker said. They state
they would not have believed
the advertised capabilities of the
Sno-Cat' had they not witnessed
It perform. Numerous prospec
tive buyers, according to Tucker,
Indicated that they were unim-
nressed bv advance notices but
absolutely amazed by a first-hand
demonstration.
The flexible Sno-Cat, with its
patented sliding pontoons, posi
tive traction and light construc
tion, rides on top of the snow
and travels where no other
vehicle can follow, Tucker ad
vertises. There is "no snow too
deep no road too steep."
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AACS Man Promoted To Grade Of Sergeant
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Edward T. Howard, airman
with the airways and air com
munications service at the Med
ford airport, received a promo
tion to the grade of sergeant, ef
fective February 1. Sgt. Howard
is assigned as clerk typist to the
airways radio station at the mu
nicipal airport.
Sgt. Howard enlisted In the
air. force at Ft. Knox, Ky., in
January, 1948, and has been as
signed to the local AACS detach
ment since August, 1949.
Coffee, milk, beer, soft drinks
and hard liquor in that order are
the nation's favorite beverages.
The New Crematorium at
Siskiyou Memorial Park
Is Now Ready to Serve this Community
and Is Open for Public Inspection
The Beautiful New Mausoleum at Siskiyou Memorial
Park Will Be Completed Soon and Open to the Public
Cremations $45.00 Phone 2-2344
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Here's a Shipment of Tucker
SNO-CATS Going to Australia!
Here is a photo of a giant Pierce F-reight Lines trailer loaded with Sno-Cats destined for Horracki, Rcxburgh Pty,
Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, agents for the state electricity commission of Victoria. Two additional Sno-Cats
have been ordered by the same agent just an example of Sno-Cat's increasing over-seas business. Shown with
the shipment are, left: Walter Clements, painter; Mrs. Radina Tucker and Mrs. Sheila Tucker, office secretaries;
Jasper Tucker, field engineer; E. M. Tucker Jr., assistant manager; E. M. Tucker Sr., president and general mana
ger; Adna Clark, Archie Uridel, George Bannister and Elmer Smith, employees.
Tucker SNO-CATS for Recreational, Industrial and Military Winter-time Service