Talk about your missed opportunity! Ernie Powell built his snowmobile in 1932. By all accounts, it worked and worked well, even being clocked at 50 MPH! But alas, he did not follow through and become a snowmobile manufacturing powerhouse. But he did get his picture in the paper. Click on it to blow it up for a pretty interesting read. Thanks to Alex Lamore, (aka Sledder Al) for sending this in, via Doug Armstrong, who is the nephew of Ernie Powell. Ernie lived his whole life in Millbrook Ontario, just 20 KM west of Peterborough.
