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Welcome to the ex-army jeep page, the most relaxed World War II jeep site on the web. Find some of the lesser known information on the world war 2 jeep and some of its 4x4 successors. Please feel free to have a rummage, make sure you visit the store and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any comments or queries.
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How did the jeep get its name?The origins of the name jeep have been argued about pretty much since the vehicle appeared and are happilly still as obscure as ever. The top theories in no particular order are: A contraction of the initials 'GP' from General Purpose although Ford say that 'G' stood for Government and 'P' for the wheelbase. Derived from the ubiquitous character in the popular Popeye cartoons, Eugene the jeep was a happy little character from the cartoons of E C Segar. Eugene was given to Popeye's goilfriend Olive Oyl by her Uncle Ben in 1936. He could appear and disappear at will, tell the future and travel in the fourth dimension... Willys is pronounced as ' willis - not ' willies' !
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Willys-Overland trademarked the word jeep after World War II and it passed to the Kaiser corporation in 1953 when Kaiser Motors bought out Willys-Overland and changed the name to Willys Motor Company. Willys changed name again in 1963 to Kaiser-jeep Corporation. The Willys name was dropped altogether in 1965 by Kaisers who went on to become the American Motors Corporation in 1970. In 1987 the jeep trademark passed to the Chrysler Corporation and finally to DaimlerChrysler AG following the buyout of Chryslers by the Stuttgart, Germany based outfit in 1998. Jeep® is now a registered trademark of Chrysler. |
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A potted history of the jeep.The jeep was produced in response to a 1940 tender request for an initial 70 vehicles by the US Army Quartermaster corps. The companies tendering were required to produce a prototype four wheel drive quarter ton payload vehicle weighing less than 1300 pounds within an incredible 49 days. The American Bantam Car and Willys Overland Inc were the only two of the 135 invited companies to respond and 47 days after tendering, Bantam delivered their prototype to the army for testing. Willys in the meantime had requested an extension to 120 days due to delivery issues with axle parts and thus, along with observers from Ford, had a golden opportunity to view the early testing of the Bantam.
The Bantam tested out reasonably well, but reservations were expressed about its power as well as the ability of the Bantam Co to supply the number of vehicles that would be required by the army following the initial small batches. The test Bantam was followed in late 1940 with the delivery of the first Willys Quad on 13th November and ten days later with the prototype Ford Pygmy. The Willys was some 500lbs heavier than the Bantam but outperformed it thanks to the Quads powerful 'Go Devil' 60 horsepower engine. Performance on the Ford model was good as well so the army decided to order 500 of each model for field testing...the rest is history.. |
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Secrets of Corsham Secret Strategic Steam ReserveThe hundreds of UK steam locomotives kept in storage since the sixties in case the Nuclear balloon went up. After the Soviet ICBM's had finished dropping their estimated total of 2000 Megatons TNT equivalent, a battered but uncowed Britain would emerge victorious from the fallout in the shape of Thomas the tank engine pulling a trainload of ministry of supply corned beef... Don't miss the Strategic Steam Reserve - A grand day out for all the family |
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