Creator of the first car Jeep is an American engineer Karl Probst, who constructed in July 1940 on the American Bantam company in the tender, the U.S. Army Bantam BRC-wheel drive car capacity, "a quarter ton of" open-body type Ranebaut. This design was later refined at the insistence of the army larger firms Willys-Overland and Ford Motor Co., As a result and have received major contracts for the supply of Jeep Willys MB and Ford GPW armies of the United States and its allies. By the end of World War II, were produced 361.4 and 277.9 thousand units., Respectively. Large supplies of the same type of data models were carried out under the "Lend-Lease" and the Soviet Union, which sent more than 51 thousand Willys assembled and disassembled.
Jeep was an informal nickname (it is believed that the name of the brand got off the car Ford GPW in particular because of the phonetic combination of first letters of the abbreviation GP) started at wide appeal of the American journalist Katharine Hiller in the spring of 1941 after testing the car Bantam. It has become a trademark of Willys-Overland in 1945.
After the war, Willys Overland decided to adjust their offspring to perform certain civic functions. Was prepared by the party machines. Just called them - CJ. These prototypes were the basis for a production model, which went on sale in August 1945.
On the hood, rear door and window frames had to be the logo Jeep. However, in the first years of production, the company has conducted trials with the "American Bantam Car" on the right of use of the name Jeep vehicles had to make the logo Willys. But already in 1950 the company has achieved to establish itself as the name, and June 13, 1950 Jeep was registered as a trademark.
Externally, all the power was in the presence of Lift Up the tailgate, wipers and covers the fuel tank on the rear wing
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