Willy Exerciser

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Moreover, it comprised 65% unaltered standard jeep components, and many of the other parts were also just modified standard jeep parts. After enough comparative testing, Willys were also tasked with integrating whatever features were seen as better on the Ford and Bantam, into their design – for instance copying the Ford's front sheetmetal, to arrive at an optimal 'MB' model, for mass-production. Designed by Raoul Hafner in 1942 and sponsored by the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment (AFEE), after their Rotachute enjoyed some success, a passive rotor assembly was added over the jeep cabin, along with a lightweight tail, for stabilization.

For the United States Army Air Force (USAAF), several MT-Tug units were built with a fifth-wheel coupling on the cargo floor, for various Fruehauf trailers, and loaded with sandbags on the cargo bed, even as aircraft tugs. The snow-rich circumstances created a need for tracked, jeep-like, all-purpose vehicles, and the Canadian Bombardier company and Willys created the T29 jeep half-track out of one of the existing 6x6 Willys MT chassis. As they genuinely cast better and don’t dive as deep as loaded floats these precision engineered Waggler Weights represent a major advance. By early 1945 this had turned into a mere 561lb (254kg) motorized wheeled load-carrying platform, with a single seat, that preceded the 1950s Willys M274 'Mechanical Mule'.Bantam's own engines made just 22hp, [75] and not even a straight-4 Hercules engine would do, so a 112cuin (1. But what was needed was a very light, small, battlefield utility vehicle to replace motorcycles (with or without sidecar) — more user-friendly to control, [50] but just as easy to get in and out of. During the first days of September 1939, World War Two had escalated in Europe, with Hitler's invasion of Poland, and the Nazi German forces showed the world a new, highly mobile form of warfare, dubbed ‘ Blitzkriegʼ, or lightning war, by a coordinated combination of fast moving tanks and motorized infantry, (self-propelled) artillery, and air support. In 1941, Dodge ramped up the 1⁄ 2‑ton WC-series, delivering some 60,000 units, compared to some 15,000 quarter tons, almost all still early production units, built by three different manufacturers. Rebuilt to Moore's design, it was approved for fielding in time for the Solomon Island Campaign in 1943.

One reason being: the jeep wasn't the only of the Quartermaster Corps' "general purpose" vehicles – so if this was the source, people would have nicknamed others "geeps" or "jeeps" as well, [135] as they did before. And the Army could still only get multi-axle drive on 'tactical' trucks, "requiring the greatest battlefield mobility". In 1991, theMB Jeep was designated an "International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark" by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

In Britain, Nuffield Mechanizations and Aero cut down a WillysMB in length and width, and stripped it for minimum weight, to serve airborne forces. Entire infantry units were mobilized on motorcycles, and they also provided an ideal way to rapidly deploy machine gun crews into position. For the first time, a quarter-ton truck tactical (4x4) chassis class was introduced, at the bottom of the range, and the 1⁄ 2‑ton chassis was supplanted by a 3⁄ 4‑ton payload class. version was developed, of which another six units were fabricated, and not ready until after the war had ended.

Frequently made additions to the standard jeeps were to fit weaponry, communications equipment, Litter carriers, wire cutters, or rudimentary armor. They performed nimble scout and reconnaissance duty, were frequent ambulances for the wounded, and did hearse service.More influential perhaps, was the 1943 short propaganda / documentary film The Autobiography of a 'Jeep', by the U. The Willys WAC (Willys Air Cooled) had three seats, built around a centrally mounted 24hp Harley Davidson engine, weighed only 1,050lb (480kg), but was noisy and not user-friendly. Although the GPA came out barely heavier, wider or taller than standard jeeps, it was one third longer, and proved unwieldy on land. Aside from actual fielding intentions, the jeep was widely used for various weapons mounts trials during World War II, simply because the jeep was a handy platform to test all kinds of ring mounts, multiple gun mounts, as well as different weapons. Six of the 2-cylinder, 13hp, 1,125-pound (510kg) Pups were deployed overseas after undergoing tests at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the project was discontinued due to several weak components.

Starting 1916, the Quartermaster Corps was servicing over 100 'motor trucks', of as many as 27 'varieties'; and in March that year, the U. Work to fix this delayed testing until late 1944, and British insights demanded such fundamental changes, that a Mk. The first CJs were essentially the same as theMB, except for such alterations tires with a tractor-like profile, with the objective to serve in the jungles of the Pacific theater, after a September 1943 request from the South West Pacific for a truck with payload and mobility over mud and swamps of jungle terrain, superior to that of the regular jeep.S. wars, but in the new century, his cavalry forces had to move quicker, with more range and more personnel. It took until early 1943 for the Ford and Willys jeeps to outnumber the 1⁄ 2‑ton and 3⁄ 4‑ton Dodge WC models in service. And with its simple piano hinge, it allowed opening the hood all the way to the upright windshield, without even needing a prop-rod, and giving excellent access to the engine, also because of its wide opening. Chief engineer Delmar 'Barney' Roos had been working on Willys' 4-cylinder car-engine for years, and with many detail changes had managed to get it to 60hp from an initial low forties output. The Bantam BRC-40 was the lightest and most nimble of the three early production models, and the Army lauded its good suspension, brakes, and high fuel economy.