Willys MB
Truck, 1⁄4ton, 4×4, command reconnaissance
Ford GPW
Jeep Willys MB
Utility truck ¼ t 4x4 jeep
윌리스 MB
Jeep Willys
威利吉普車
Dale Roeder
Karl Probst
Multiple parties and persons:
American Bantam Co.
Willys-Overland Motors
Ford Motor Co.
Many – firstly from Camp Holabird
U.S. Army
Harold Crist et al.
Delmar "Barney" Roos
gross / net
yes
Live axles on leaf springs front and rear
on-road;
cross-country
Ford GPA "Seep": 12,778
Willys jeep.jpg
Willys M606 Jeep.jpg
Mitsubishi 1955 Jeep.JPG
G-622 Ford GTB, Cargo, Low Silhouette, USMC 166487 pic2.JPG
These soldiers go up in the air to prove that the Army's new quarter ton truck can take it. - NARA - 195336.jpg
Dodge halve ton WC4 Weapons Carrier, W-28572.JPG
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H19947.jpg
Willys MB Motor.JPG
Willys Quad 4x4 pilot car, ¾ right front .jpg
Willys CJ-2A 1946 .jpg
Ford Pygmy jeep pilot vehicle.JPG
left
right
Interwar experimental vehicles
Pilot models: Willys "Quad" and Ford "Pygmy"
Pre-production models: American Bantam Mk II, Ford GP, and Willys MA
Other contemporaneous jeeps
Standard 1944 cabin and engine
United States
Willys MB: Over 359,489 *
Ford GPW: Over 277,896 *
WWII total: More than 647,925 *,
including early production units
* ACM fabricated 3/4 of all U.S. 1/4-ton jeep bodies
United States and its allies of World War II
curb weight
dry weight
Inline 4 Willys L134 "Go Devil"
MB and GPW same
Designed to mount .30 or .50 caliber machine guns swiveling on a post between front seatbacks
ton 4×4 utility truck
vertical
overall, top up:
reducible to
YDR_40BRC
طراز سيارة من إنتاج شركة فورد
Vehículo todoterreno con tracción en las cuatro ruedas.
automodel van Willys-Overland
American off-road light military utility vehicle
армійський автомобіль США часів Другої світової
kevyt maastoajoneuvo
μοντέλο αυτοκινήτου
US-amerikanischer leichter Geländewagen von 1940 und Urtyp des Pkw-Geländewagens
דגם רכב
ancienne automobile américaine connue sous le nom de \Jeep\
Vigorous testing was required for Army proving—shown a Ford GP, 1941
U.S. marked M606 jeep
Marmon-Herrington converted Ford half-ton truck, c. 1936 – sometimes called the "grandfather of the Jeep"
Three pedals and three sticks—for shifting gears, engaging front- or four-wheel drive, and high or low gearing
Howie-Wiley machine gun carrier, 1937, Fort Benning Infantry School
Allies hastily received interim models—King George VI of the United Kingdom inspects a 1941 Bantam BRC with an airborne unit in May 1942. A Vickers machine gun has been fitted to the bonnet.
World War II soldiers and officials called the half-ton 1940 / 1941 Dodge Reconnaissance / Weapon Carriers "Jeeps" through 1942, before the term moved to the Willys MB.
The Mitsubishi Jeep started as a license-produced CJ-3B
Willys "Go Devil" engine
Willys "Quad" pilot car initially copied Bantam's rounded grille and hood.
Ford's first test model, the "Pygmy" in the U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum.
Willys MA jeep at the Desert Training Center, Indio, California, June 1942
The compact Ford GTB / G-622 1ton 4x4 truck, introduced in late 1942, was still typically nicknamed 'Burma jeep'.
USMC converted 1929 half-ton, 4×2 Chevrolet, armed scout one-off