The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
709.2009.1
Dartmouth Ski Inc. Childrens Skis
20/01/2009
Hermione Cooper
20/01/2009
Pair of children's wooden skis with Kandahar cables attached to bindings. Red painted sole.
metal, wood
160(l) cms At widest part 8(w)cms
1 pair
On bindings "DARTMOUTH SKI INC" Initials painted on ski read "S DE G"
brown
A guy called Fred Harris in Vermont,USA,seems to have been the nucleus for Dartmouth Skis. By his own account he had "skeeing on the brain" and started producing his own skis around 1910-11.
With various transformations along the way, Fred's "skeeing" ultimately led to The Dartmouth Cooperative Society, supplying ski equipment to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire which seems to have been ski orientated.
The ski equipment department was so successful they decided to form Dartmouth Skis Inc. in 1940-41.
This particular pair of skis ultimately found their way to Scotland (circa 1950) and seem to have been well used by a member of the Scottish Ski Club. Unfortunately, we don't know who.
Part of collection passed on from Scottish Ski Club
01/12/2008
28/04/2009
Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
28/04/2009