Anniversaire peu connu aujourd’hui : celui de l’utilisation de la première Zamboni au Forum de Montréal en 1955.

C’est le journaliste Dave Stubbs qui a souligné les 60 ans de l’évolution technologique du tracteur tirant une couverture chaude avec une série de Tweets relatant les particularité et l’histoire du particulier véhicule.

Chapeau pour le travail de recherche monsieur Stubbs.

This night 1955, 60 years ago: #Habs Forum becomes 1st Cdn NHL rink to use a Zamboni machine. This ad from early ’50s pic.twitter.com/NRZhJndZFP

— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) March 10, 2015

March 19, 1955 @TheHockeyNews story on Mtl Forum’s Zamboni, which debuted 9 days earlier as 1st in a Cdn NHL rink pic.twitter.com/EgJa0wVLie

— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) March 10, 2015

#Habs today use 10,000th Zamboni machine that rolled off assembly line. Serial number on its special gold plate: pic.twitter.com/wS0Trt7igq

— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) March 10, 2015

Zamboni Model E29 in a Laval arena north of Montreal in early 1950s. Forum debuted its similar machine March 10, 1955 pic.twitter.com/6dWBpPPr3u

— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) March 10, 2015

Gas-powered tractor resurfaces Montreal Forum ice in 1930s. (Scorched glass negative; I didn’t take this photo) pic.twitter.com/tGjWJ0rWTS

— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) March 10, 2015

Frank J. Zamboni’s 1953 patent for his revolutionary new machine. #Habs debuted theirs on this night 60 years ago pic.twitter.com/TnA1Ftw18b

— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) March 10, 2015

.@frankgindc @TheHornGuy Like this: Montreal Forum, 1940s. Water-pouring tractor in the background, centre pic.twitter.com/haOqar8uoO

— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) March 10, 2015