SEA-GOING JEEPS
VAST QUANTITIES
AMERICANS RUSH ORDERS
(0.C.) SAX FRANCISCO, April 16
In any American military centre the small automobiles used by parties of three or four soldiers always attract attention by reason of their smartness and the amazing feats performed by these jeeps, as they are familiarly known.
New the I. nited States is to have vast quantities of seagoing jeeps, and in this respect another significant example of Washington wartime speed was furnished when the War Department with all urgenev put through a speedy order for a "large number of small amphibian trucks, the seagoing version of the jeep."
Within five minutes after the order had been approved, the Department said in Washington, manufacturers had been directed bv longdistance telephone to put the new vehicle on the assembly line. The new amphibian truck "dees everything the jeep docs on land and can duplicate it in water" an announcement said. "It will go through swamps, jungle undergrowth. or ride the ocean waves with the same ease that it travels upon land."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 144, 20 June 1942, Page 3
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