![]() ![]() That wasn’t all he did, though – he devised and installed the hut’s combined heating/ventilation system, and set up the acetylene plant and piping which would provide light through the months of winter darkness. So back came Day, this time in charge of the experimental technology. Scott’s partner in this development was the engineer from the Discovery Expedition, Reginald Skelton, but Teddy Evans connived to get Skelton excluded from the Terra Nova Expedition, citing questions of seniority. ![]() ![]() These would come to be known as the “motor sledges.” The car – built to a familiar model, four wheels and all – proved to be unsuitable for travelling anywhere but the hard level sea ice, but Scott was convinced that motorised transport was the future for Antarctic travel, and was developing some more heavy-duty vehicles in the shape of caterpillar-tread tractors. It was in that capacity that he first went to the Antarctic, tending the Arrol-Johnston car that Shackleton took on the Nimrod Expedition in 1907-9. Bernard Day was born in Wymondham, Leicestershire, in 1884, and as his father was a successful architect and engineer, it’s little surprise that Bernard ended up working at the forefront of early automobile design at the Arrol-Johnston motor company. ![]()
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