I love that last part, where the jeep took out the large stump and just kept rollin' over it until he was past it. That probably sold half the jeeps they sold from then on and impressed the Army to buy them for the troops.
I had an early 50's Willys Jeep. It was a Navy model. Had a 7ft snowplow on it that used an old porta-power to raise and lower the blade. Someone had put a 300 six cylinder Ford in it and that thing would push a mountain of snow. No brakes....the plow handled that function. The radiator had a 2 inch hole all the way through it. The original fuel tank (under the driver's seat) leaked pretty bad, so I'd tie the door open (I smoked back then). Eventually ran it out of a gallon milk jug in the back seat. I bypassed the mechanical fuel pump with an electric unit. It'd suck that jug flat, so you had to reinflate it to add gas. Loved that Jeep.
There is a lot of nonsense about Ford and WW2 Jeeps in this thread. In 1940, as America began the build-up to intervention in World War 2 (the draft started that fall, NOT after Pearl Harbor), the United States Army had a competition at a proving ground for the best all-terrain automobile. Ford, Willys, and American Bantam submitted prototypes. The Ford and Willys models did not have four-wheel drive, but the Bantam did. Much to Ford and Willys' embarrassment, the little Bantam ran rings around the Ford and the Willys. Eventually, Army officials put the prototypes up on lifts to examine the undersides of them. According to later testimony in a patent lawsuit, witnesses saw the Ford and Willys engineers making free-hand drawings of the Bantams four-wheel drive layout while the Bantam was on the lift. The Army then announced the competition had been inconclusive, and invited all three companies to revise their prototypes and try again. When the second trial was held, lo and behold the Ford and Wyllis prototypes both had four-wheel drive systems identical to Bantam's. Wyllis was awarded the primary contract, with the understanding that Ford would be the main subcontractor and get about half (NOT "95 percent) of the business. Bantam was awarded a contract to make those little trailers the Jeeps used to pull behind them and not much else. Thus, while Ford may have been experimenting with four-wheel drive truck in the late '30s, their original prototype for the Jeep did NOT have four-wheel drive, nor did Wyllis'; only Bantam's did. British authors Denfield and Fry were able to pull this story together when they were writing their history of the Jeep for Bantam Books (UK) in the 'seventies, when almost all of the principles were still alive and available to tell their stories.
Yeah cars back in the time from 1910s to 1970s were made from steel and iron.Today's cars are just junk made from scrap metal and only thing that improved from the past are more comfortable seats...
Interesting how 99 percent of the men standing around were wearing suits and looking like they didn't understand what they were looking at or being told lol. One GI driving a jeep. The stump jumper must have been a dedicated Ford company man as he was obviously fearless.
Such a delight to reconnect with one of the fond memories of Vietnam. In 1969 I had never driven such a great little vehicle. Ours was a Ford built 'jeep' for the surge in demand. If you want, I'll share the 'jeep's' radio story ... ;-)
@Monkey Head Very likely, if it was newly issued. The M151 and M151A1 were current issue during U.S. involvement in 'French Indo - China', but many trucks, 1/4 ton. 4X4 of previous issue were also in the field including Willys built MC and MD (M38, M38A1) and surplus WW2 issue Ford GPW and Willys MB vehicles.
@Monkey Head Not many Multi Use Tactical Truck vehicles were sold stateside, and those that were had often been torch cut into chunks (demilled). They had a well documented habit of tucking a front wheel under while turning and as such were considered liabilities at DRMO sales.
Donny Dodson, Tho there's not a great hue and cry for your 'jeep's' radio story, i'd wait to hear it. Wondering why you just didn't tell it Instead of asking if i wanted to hear it. Maybe you wanted to be asked ...
I had forgotten my offer. Here it is; In September 1969 I arrived at HHC & BAND, DISCOM, 4th Infantry Division, outside Plieku, Republic of Vietnam (R.I.P.). While being introduced to the unit I saw our assigned "jeep," as discussed above. On the left rear fender was a rather large OD box with knob, dials, meters and a curly cord hand set. A 5 or 6 foot long antenna was pulled down and tied to the corner of the windshield. As a brand new E-5 (and presuming I would become responsible for keeping my troopers alive) I asked who our Radio Telephone Operators (RTO) were. My guide told me we did not have any RTO's. Against the forewarning "Never volunteer for anything!," I volunteered to be trained in basic operations. Who knew? It just might save us while we were out on the road. I knew a little bit about mobile radios as a Licensed CB operator "back in the world." It was explained to me that the unit was not authorized to have a radio, hence no MOS RTO's. If "the Army" found out we had a jeep with a radio, "they" would take away our jeep but not replace it. So, we kept the Ford "jeep" and hoped that the NVA & VC would let our jeep and 2 trucks go by unmolested rather than risk an air strike, called on our radio. I got home a year later, so maybe the charade worked. Peace.
@@donalddodson7365 Mr. Dodson, Thankyou. I was assigned to CBMU-302, Subic Bay less than 10 yrs later as the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam. Any and everybody that could flee jumped on anything that could float and headed for Subic. There were row after row of old U.S. Navy destroyers tied along side of each other that had been turned over to the South Vietnamese Navy. Felt like i was transported back in time to WWll ...
Old Henry was the man . The first all wheel drive was built in conjunction with Ford and marmon Harrington in 1938. The front axle in the jeep was a modified ford rear end. The engine was the Ford tractor 4 cylinder engine modified with a fuel pump (since the tractor was gravity fed )and a model A transmission . The Marmon name is still building front drive axles today.after all these years. I own a 1955 f100 marmon Harrington all wheel drive. Marmon was famous for winning the 1911 Indianapolis 500 first year it was run. Their ingenuity helped win ww2.1 ton 2 ton and 5 ton trucks.the little jeep in the video is a proto type that is in a museum in Missouri if I remember right.
@@allinaday3526 actually I was joking about the code. It sounds like 60Hz hum introduced by a line level mismatch in a microphone circuit. The clicking sounds like cellphone communication interference. I have heard these sounds before. But then, maybe the clicking is something!
Tirar onda com talento alheio é fácil. Quem apresentou o projeto perfeito foi a Bantan, mas como era empresa pequena foi obrigada a ceder o projeto para a ford e para a willys.
All three prototype jeeps -the Bantam, Ford 'Pygmy', and the Willys 'Quad' had the welded slat type grille. When the Willys MB became the standardized jeep , Ford was asked to co- produce it. A Ford engineer, Clarence Kramer, designed the one piece pressed steel grille, which was cheaper and easier to produce than the built-up 'slat type. Willys followed suit and the iconic 'Jeep grille as we know it was born.
In ww2, there was 2 jeeps, the Ford GPW ( this one ) and the willy MB. ( Willis jeep ) Willis finally won the contact, but Ford still produced the same parts. The transmission and transfer case are Ford and are stamped. These jeeps were made to not tip on a 45 degree angle. All cars and truck of today will flip. I had a 45 Willis. Restored in most on my dinning room table. Transmission and transfer case was. Motor was too heavy for the table so I did it on the floor on a 4 wheel cart. I never got it totally restored as somebody offered me a good buck for it.
Basically,you can tell they're built by ford because all the parts of the jeep has a little cursive "F" stamped into them but they were not allowed to put "Ford" on them.
The Bantam Car Company built the first "Jeep" type vehicle as a prototype for the Army. Bantam could not meet the production requirements as the company was too small. The Army gave the plans to both Willys and Ford and asked them to build a number of prototypes for testing. The final vehicle design is an amalgamation of the features the Army liked best from both manufacturers. The idea the vehicle is a total Willys' design is not true.
Many but not all have died. Some pass on their knowledge and memories of working in the factories or even driving them in the theater of war. They are remembered through videos like this as well and we truly thank them.
thra5herxb12s yes I agree. There are only but a tiny handful I would think. If this was created in 1941 and most men in this video are in their 30s to 40s then they should be at about the centurion mark. We should truly be thankful for these pioneers I agree.
When this film was made they had no idea how long the war would last, how many of them or their loved ones would be killed, and what the world would be like under German & Imperial Japanese domination. Much more scary, I think, than the worst COVID-19 has to offer. Be safe.
Bantam, Willys and Ford all proposed different engines. Eventually, the final specs for the General Purpose Vehicle, 4x4 1/4 ton, took bits from all three, plus some independent ideas.
@@donalddodson7365 Very true and accurate. The standard Willys MB and Ford GPW vehicles that were built by the hundreds of thousands throughout the war had Willys 134 'Go Devil' engines, the primary reason Willys had won the contract.
I don't understand why everyone is giving such high praises, I mean yeah old jeeps are neat but they aren't doing anything a modern car can't do with a stout bumper. Only reason our cars look weak by comparison is because they're built to crumple so you don't die, if you just install an aftermarket bumper you can do the same thing
Just a car company trying to land a huge military contract and throwing everything on the table. No safety idiots telling them 'don't do this and that', no slideshows or hardhats being handed out, just beating the shit out of some Jeeps.
Esto es pue, un ejemplo de " Licitacion Pública ". A Vista de Todos , al Aire libre , con la Prensa , Con Altos Funcionarios Públicos, Con Profesionales empresas y Tecnicos ,mostrando los productos y la Firma de Contratos.
I like how Ford designed the suspension and chassis that the army liked, but then because the army liked Willis overland's sheet metal better so they named it a Willie's vehicle, then had Ford build almost all of them for 40 years.
They guys driving the Willy’s in the demo, definitely lived with back problems the rest of their lives. Lol. The ride on asphalt in those things were brutal enough.
Actually, the inventor, or original maker was Bantam. They were deemed to be too small to produce the number of Jeeps needed for the military. Ford had the capacity and the management in place.
95% of the Jeeps built during WWII were built by Ford, 100% of Jeep type vehicles built for military use after WWII were built by Ford. Willie's overland was bought by American Motor Corporation after world war II and was part of the AMC car line right up by the mid 1980s when AMC was sold the Chrysler, Mopar only wanted the Jeep name and AMC was gutted. The Jeep name was then slapped on a cheap Mopar chassis.
I guess I'm not sure what encompasses a "chassis", but YJ transmissions and transfer cases were terrible and the axles, depending, weren't as good. And, of course, they replaced the lockout hubs with an unreliable vacuum disconnect. IIRC, the tubs are sought after though because they were galvanized, unless I'm misinformed.
I know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this but here goes. My grandfather who had two of these as tractors on his farm said that the Germans loved these because they rolled over so easy they killed more GIs than they could.
Toward the end of the Bush Presidency when he was under heat for deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq an e mail was circulated claiming Jimmy Carter killed more soldiers than Bush did and asking how he ever got a Nobel Peace Prize. I looked up the figures and it's true at the time more soldiers died under Carter but the cause of the deaths was "accident" not "combat". I asked a friend who was Army at the time why all the accidental deaths. He said today they're riding around in Humvees. We were riding around in Jeeps with no seat belts and no doors! Then he related that in just one weekend six people at his post were killed in vehicle accidents.
Dusty, As a CMCN (E-3), my 1st Real command after A-school was aboard a MSC oceanographic boat in WESTPAC. Since i had a civilian drivers license, the Personnel Office issued me a Military license for a Jeep. This was so they'd have a driver for inport. 1st night on duty (Subic Bay), about midnight, i'm called to the quarterdeck and told to go to the "O" club and pick up the old man. So i run over there, talk to the Chief at the front door and they half drag / half carry the skipper out and put him in the Jeep's passenger seat. I hauled ass back to the pier, go around a corner, look over and the seat's empty . Look in the rear view mirrow and he's sitting in the road ! Slam on the brakes, back up till i'm alongside of him, jump out and run around to him. Asked him if he was alright and getting no response i somehow ( at 5'3" and 135 lbs ) managed to get him back in the Jeep and This time hook the canvas safety strap across the doorway. Get back to the boat and two others haul him up the gangway and to his cabin. I didn't say anything to anyone and the next day i passed him in the passageway. He had a few scrapes but didn't say anything to me, so i let sleeping dogs lie.
@@dzoska007 Prototypes from Ford had modified Model N tractor engines, Willys and all standard (Willys MB, Ford GPW) production WW2 'Jeeps' had the Willys 134 'Go Devil', which is largely what won the contract for Willys.
Just trying to win the bid. Willy’s ended up with the major contract. Ford built quite a few Because the need was urgent. Those that have had both say not much difference
Wanna mindblower? Think of all of the AIRPLANES built by Ford at the Willow Run plant. Mass production was the need at the time, and Ford had that part of the equasion in the bag.
On my way to the Okemo ski resort in Vermont it is "Jeep" that is most often seen flipped over in the median strip. Once upon a time ago Jeeps rocked today's Jeep is lame.
У мойого діда вже після війни був Вілліс. Казав, що дуже надійна і просто машина. Дуже подобалася вона йому за проходимість і легкість керування.Потім він п'яний у аварії того Вілліса розбив))
The post-WW2 chain was as following: Willys Overland -> Kaizer->Kaizer Jeep->AMC->Chrysler. At the end Chrysler claiming this is still "same" subdivision that built original G503 vehicle. Actually this is incorrect, because this subdivision is existing today under name "AM General" and HMMWV is their product
Do your research, fella. It was a Ford designed vehicle but willys powertrain that eventually became known as "Jeep". Btw, the G.I's of WWII coined that name because it was labeled as a General Purpose vehicle, or "GP's" So the U.S. military Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines just called them"Jeeps." Oh yeah, the Dodge brothers used to work at Ford. How do you like your Jeep now buddy?
@@realemiele.franco736 I love it! Just like I loved my '49 CJ2A, CJ3B, M38A1, my CJ5, 2 CJ7's, my YJ, TJ, JK, JL and my new JT. I LOVE JEEPS! I have nothing against Ford, I had a full size Bronco for years! But this new Bronco lll can't come close to a Wrangler! If you think it does, you're delusional.
Henry wasn't concerned about the replacement of parts. He wanted everyone to know that if a Willys part broke, that it wasn't a Ford part. A bit of an ego thing, because all parts were mandated to be interchangeable, but that was Henry, like him or love him.
@@-oiiio-3993 No, it's been VERY well documented by Ford historians and many others. It was purely an ego thing to stamp everything with an F. Remember, Henry Sr. was an extremely "eccentric" man.
Except the roll bar would reduce the number you can ship stacked per Liberty Ship, would prevent dodging in and through woodlands, and further reduce cargo capacity.
