JEEP-JEEP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 15 June 1942, Page 4

JEEP-JEEP

ORIGIN IN COMIC STRIP With American troops cropping up f suddenly in so many parts of the Em- I pire, the “Jeep” is likely to burst upon I almost anyone anywhere. Here is \ what a New York correspondent, * Fietcher Pratt, had to say about it | in a recent 8.8. C. broadcast! • The “Jeep” wrs originally a comic- ! strip animal, with paws like mittens I and a fourth dimensional brain which enabled it to go anywhere. That’s how the American army’s new light car, sometimes called the “Blitz buggy, the “bug” or the “whack” finally received the definitive name of “Jeep.” It is one of the outstanding successes of American arms production, both in quality and quantity. It is rapidly turning th e new American army into the most highly motorised force in the world, and it looks like the answer to the transportation problem which is th e most serious in our modern war. There is nothing particularly secret about the Jeep in a technical sense. I have no doubt that the U.S. army wouM be perfectly willing to furnish the Ax’s wiih comnlete plans for the Jeep, Provided they did not ask for the Jigs and fixtures which enable Amer ; ran industry to turn out the cars in such vast quantities, or for | toe skilled workmen who can handle j th°«e machines.