1936  Somebody began to work on the idea of snowmobiles and snow tractors.
1947  When the department got around to finding out about snow tractors, the weather threatened to break.
1948  . . . replacing the old-fashioned dog team and sled [are] . . . motor toboggans and "snow tractors" which attain a speed up to 35 miles per hour and manoeuver in almost any kind of terrain.