From: Jonathan Boos (acfarer@cox.net)
Date: Sun Nov 13 2005 - 07:05:31 PST
WTG Art!
I didn't think they could slip one past you.
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] 1940 Willys-overland completes original Jeep prototype
>I am always awake.
>
> apb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
>
>> I can only assume that in line with current policy, History channel want
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
>> Behalf Of Everette
>> Sent: 13 November 2005 13:31
>> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>> Subject: [MV] 1940 Willys-overland completes original Jeep prototype
>>
>>
>> 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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