Aviation Specials  |  The Jeep
Ever since the interest in Jeeps mushroomed, historians have argued about the exact origins of the vehicle. The doubt about the origins reflects the uncertainty of the times in which the Jeep was conceived.
It might be true that Karl Probst, working for American Bantam, devised the Jeep, and that Ford’s capacity for mass-production ensured standardised production, but history records that Willys made the ‘Jeep’. Many years ago, someone described the Jeep as a‘mechanical mule’ - it is a wholly appropriate analogy. The Jeep was designed to help win the war and then be cast aside with the debris of it. What made the Jeep great is that, in the manner of the mule, it was tougher than anyone expected and, when driven with sufficient panache and not a little desperation, it seemed capable of the impossible
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