HUS-SKI sticking throttles

[HUS-SKI ED 1961]

In 1962 Maurice Cyr took Apollinaire Lapointe our super mechanic and two 200-A machines to Mt. St. Anne, Quebec for a special press demo.
They left very very early and made the five-hour trip.
Maurice was the salesman who could sell fridges to the Eskimos. He was my sales idol at that time . He was in his 30’s.
Apolinaire was in his fifties and a very serious worker. Everything he did was cold and calculated.
At the end of the demo’s and testing by the press the two machines sat at the back of the tilt trailer.
Apolinaire was invited to the bar, with the group but chose to have a coffee and went to load the machines.
These machines had a throttle cable, like a brake cable on a bicycle and they went under the engine.
They often froze and since Maurice had driven to the trailer the cables were in the wide-open throttle position.
Apolinaire stood beside the machine, pulled the starter cord and the machine fired and took off.
The throttle was wide open and the machine shot up the tilt trailer, hit the trunk, broke the back window and slid back and forth on the trunk while the cleats chewed the top of thee the rear seat, parcel shelf etc.
Appolinaire managed to kill the engine after a few minutes
Then they had to drive five hours back to Pt.Claire without a rear window.

Ed