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.