From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Nov 13 2005 - 06:29:44 PST
I am always awake.
apb
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> I can only assume that in line with current policy, History channel want
From: "Nigel Hay MILWEB" <nigel@milweb.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] 1940 Willys-overland completes original Jeep prototype
to
> keep the use of the "F" word out of their shows..... that's why there is
no
> mention of Ford's contribution to the jeep dynasty.....?
>
> In fact film maker Quentin Tarrantino has spent his entire career
carefully
> only ever using "F" scripts.......
>
> That's got the puns in before the Witmeister Mr Bloom wakes up......
>
> NIGE
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of Everette
> Sent: 13 November 2005 13:31
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> Subject: [MV] 1940 Willys-overland completes original Jeep prototype
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>
> Flame away, shields are up and 100%
>
> I go this from History Channel, just like the last one about jeep, that
> resulted in numerous flames, but I am big boy with lots of tail feathers..
>
> Everette
>
> November 13
>
> 1940 Willys-overland completes original Jeep prototype
>
> In 1939, the U.S. Army asked America's automobile manufacturers to submit
> designs for a simple and versatile military vehicle. It would be two full
> years before the official U.S. declaration of war, but military officials,
> who knew this declaration to be inevitable, recognized the need for an
> innovative troop-transport vehicle for the global battlefields of World
War
> II. The American Bantam Car Company, a small car manufacturer, submitted
the
> first design approved by the army, but the production contract was
> ultimately given to Willys-Overland, a company that had a larger
production
> capability and offered a lower bid. The Willys Jeep, as it would become
> known during the war, was similar to the Bantam design, and featured
> four-wheel drive, an open-air cab, and a rifle rack mounted under the
> windshield. On this day, the first Willys-Overland Jeep prototype was
> completed, and submitted to the U.S. Army for approval. One year later,
with
> the U.S. declaration of war, mass production of the Willys-Overland Jeep
> began. By the war's end in 1945, some 600,000 Jeeps had rolled off the
> assembly lines and onto the battlefields of Asia, Africa, and Europe. The
> efficient and sturdy four-wheel drive Jeep became a symbol of the American
> war effort--no obstacle could stop its advance. Somewhere along the line
the
> vehicle acquired the name "Jeep," likely evolving from the initials G.P.
for
> "general purchase" vehicle, and the nickname stuck. In 1945,
Willys-Overland
> introduced the first civilian Jeep vehicle, the CJ-2A--the forefather of
> today's sport utility vehicles.
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