The war was not easy for the Americans in the Pacific region in 1943 The sticky mud, the heat and t

The war was not easy for the Americans in the Pacific region in 1943 The sticky mud, the heat and the dense forest of the islands to be won to the Japanese meant that all men and machines, suffer much. An old acquaintance of ours, the Jeep also had its limitations and they were slowly tran revealing. The units were trying at all costs to improve performance of that which was his pack mule and field modifications were appearing tran here and there in various forms. In these changes something resembling a dumpster pickup had been placed to increase its load capacity. tran The novelty worked tran reasonably despite overloading the rear axle.
On September 12, 1943 the Center Aberdeen Proving Ground began to modify a standard Jeep. A set of 20-inch wheels was modified to fit the axes of the Jeep. A set of GMC truck tires (7.50x20) was placed.
The Ordnance Department ordered to Willys-Overland models had two pilot wheels and tires 7.50x20 relieved and the maximum possible parts interchangeable tran with the standard Jeep. The new vehicle would have the following title: "Truck ton 4x4 Pickup, Light Jungle, MLW T24". tran This vehicle would never be adopted because tran the Command of the Army Ground Forces did not want a non-standard vehicle to hinder further complicated operations to transfer parts to keep the machines running.
Many problems have appeared in the prototype N.1 (incidentally, only two vehicles of this type were constructed) such as brackets that of jumelos snapped by excessive stress, which axle shafts tran snapped due to the increase in length since the differences were lengthened to support more load. The hubs were not sufficiently strong to withstand the drag of the wheels and tires and consequently much greater snapped. The normal clutch production was not the torque tran capacity tran required (personal attention you put bigger wheels on any vehicle, it was all done by senior engineers and gave problems. MODIFICATIONS WITH CAUTION!).
When the project was eventually canceled, the Center Aberdeen Proving Ground had the job of dismantling the special axes that had been made and put a set of standard axles in place. Normal wheels and tires 7:50 x 16 standard were placed. This modification produced a Jeep-bodied pickup that is believed, ended up being used internally by the center itself evidence.
For those who are thinking that I forgot to talk about the second prototype here's the answer: he was assigned to the Desert Test Center and then to the Laboratory of Mechanics of Tillage in Alabama tran for mud dynamometer testing. He then went to the Center of Testing Tires. After all that, he returned to the center of Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he arrived tran virtually destroyed. According to information that I read on a website a while ago, in 1948 the Aberdeen evidence, gathered for some photos and final reports prototypes that had been rejected in tests and simply destroyed. A shot in the chest preservationism and historical memory. Your last picture is this.
Today nothing remains of these two vehicles, not to be the photos and specs of a machine that could have made another revolution, similar to the Jeep did when it appeared, but that policy ended up screwing it up again. tran
- WIDTH: 62 Pol - 1.57 Mts
- TIRES: 7.50 X 20
- ENGINE: Standard 4 cylinder Jeep
- ADVANTAGES: 5.38: 1 - FRONT TOW: Vertical capacity of 8,000 Lbs
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