Until that point, only a few third party after-market modified four-wheel drive 1⁄ 2‑ton trucks, mainly Marmon-Herrington derived Fords, had been bought after 1935, for testing, but the prevailing belief amongst military higher-ups and Congress was, that all the extra 4-wheel drive hardware would make any truck lighter than a 1 + 1⁄ 2‑ton payload model, so much heavier that the weight-gain would cancel out any benefits gained from adding 4-wheel drive. With some 640,000 units built, [nb 7] the 1⁄ 4‑ton jeeps constituted a quarter of the total military support motor vehicles that the U. For proper reception, this included radio interference suppression shielding, so indicated by a suffix 'S' on the jeep's hood registration number. S. Army began standardizing its general-purpose truck chassis types by payload rating, initially in five classes from 1⁄ 2 to 7 + 1⁄ 2 short tons (0. S. policies had caused a stark disadvantage compared to Nazi Germany's aim, building a standard fleet of Wehrmacht (German armed forces) motor vehicles.

C., a publicity stunt and Senate photo opportunity demonstrating the car's off-road capability by driving it up and down the U.By March 1942, the T14 GMC was revised as a cargo / prime mover, named Willys 'MT-TUG', that could compete in some roles with the 3⁄ 4‑ton Dodges. Its body design was to be rectangular in shape, [5] including a sketch drawing, handed to the Ordnance Technical Committee.

S. Army Quartermaster Corps wrote: "Credit for the original design of the Army's truck 1⁄ 4‑ton, 4x4, may not be claimed by any single individual or manufacturer. For instance: the earliest Ford GPWs had a Willys design frame, and in late-1943, some GPWs came with an unmodified Willys body; and in 1945 Willys produced some MBs with a deep mud exhaust system, vacuum windshield wipers, and a Jeep CJ‑style parking brake. Willys appealed this ruling, and after a five-year investigation, in 1948 the FTC again ruled that "Willys was unfairly taking credit for the creation and was thus using unfair methods of competition.If someone with Prader-Willi syndrome is allowed to eat as much as they want, they'll quickly become dangerously overweight. Battle-hardened warriors learned to weld a roof-top height vertical cutter-bar to the front of their jeeps, to cut any trip wires tied across roads or trails by the Germans, placed to snap the necks of unsuspecting jeepers.