JEEPS ON THE LAND

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13430, 18 April 1944, Page 3

JEEPS ON THE LAND

POST-WAR POSSIBILITIES OF WELL-KNOWN VEHICLE

The American magazine "Liberty reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been testing the Army Jeeps with an eye to their post-war use on the land. A Jeep has ploughed an acre of heavy soil with a 16in coulter in 1.7 2 hours, using 2.32 gallons of petrol. It can drag 1,300 pounds on such soil' without wheelslip. It can haul a three-horse drill on half a gallon per acre—less than a sixth of the fuel used by standard tractors" on the same work. On a ranch it can go anywhere a horse can reach. In the yard it will operate all the usual stationary mechanism of a farm from milking to chaff-cutting. Moreover, unlike the tractor, it is available for family use in leisure hours, and for all the farmer's professional road work. Since the railways, the rural mail carriers and the garages are all cherishing Jeepy postwar plans, there should be no trouble in selling the Army's stocks when Hitler goes to Tristan da Cunha.