Edmund Hillary--A Biography by Michael Gill

Author:Michael Gill [Michael Gill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911342977
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Reinventing Ferguson tractors

The tractors were still far from perfect, and throughout the winter Ed pressed his two engineers, Jim Bates and Murray Ellis, to improve them.

Although both were described as ‘engineers’, Jim Bates and Murray Ellis had very different backgrounds. Jim Bates had trained as a mechanic but he had an eccentric flair for invention. Gunn wrote:

Jim Bates was the nearest approach to a mad inventor I have ever met. Craggy of face with wild black hair and unshaven chin, Bates on the trail of a new invention was something to step aside from in a hurry as electric arcs crackled and gas-jets flared. Although I doubt he had a single formal qualification, he was probably the most intelligent man on the expedition with an insight into mechanical, physical, political and social problems that few others shared. I was often sounding out the views of that unlikely seer James Bates.16

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