Katherine Hillyer

Jeep is a brand of American automobile marque of Chrysler Group LLC, a consolidated subsidiary of Italian multinational Fiat car. [2] [3] The former Chrysler Corporation acquired the Jeep brand, along with the rest of the assets of the owner American Motors, in 1987 the Jeep line of vehicles consists of dankendaraan sport utility vehicle off-road but also include pickup trucks in the past.
The first Willys MB Jeep produced in 1941 [1] with the first civilian models in 1945, [4] so that the oldest off-road vehicle and sport utility meltin pot vehicle (SUV) brand. It inspired a number of other light utility vehicles, such as Land Rover [5] [6] which is a 4-wheel-drive is the second oldest brand. The original Jeep vehicle that first appeared as the prototype Bantam BRC became the primary light 4-wheel-drive vehicle of the United States Army and Allies during World War II, and the postwar period. Many Jeep variants serving military and civilian roles the same since it was made in another country.
Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep has proven difficult to verify. The most widely held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that contemporary HMMWV (for High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Motor Vehicles purpose) has become known as the Humvee.
An alternate view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, meltin pot and was never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation. meltin pot The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meltin pot meant G for government use, P to designate 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine. Ermey shows that soldiers at the time were very impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye comics and cartoons created by EC Fresh, as early as mid-March 1936, Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems. " [7]
Words Fighting Forces by Clinton A. Sanders, meltin pot a dictionary of military slang, published in 1942, in the library diPentagon gives this definition: Jeep: A four-wheel drive vehicle meltin pot of one-half the capacity of one-and-one-half ton for reconnaissance or other army duty. Term applied to the bantam-cars, and occasionally to other motor vehicles (USA) in the Air Corps, the Link Trainer, the armored forces, ton command vehicle. Also referred to as "any small plane, helicopter, or gadget." meltin pot [Citation needed ]
Early in 1941, Willys-Overland demonstrated the vehicle meltin pot off-road capability by having it raise ladder United States Capitol, driven by Willys test driver meltin pot Irving "Red" Haussman, who had recently heard soldiers at Fort Holabird calling it a "jeep." When asked by columnist Katherine Hillyer meltin pot for the Washington Daily News (or the audience, meltin pot according to another account) what it was called, Irving answered, "It's a jeep."
Katherine Hillyer's article was published nationally meltin pot on February 20, 1941, and including images of vehicles under the title: Parliament TAKE A RIDE-With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one the Army's new scout cars, known as "jeeps" or "quads", climbed to the top of the Capitol meltin pot steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed.
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