Our eWillys Michigan bureau, lead by Brian (and staffed only by Brian), uncovered a treasure trove of images, most I haven’t seen before, of early jeep demonstrations, publicity images and more.
Brian writes, “the source is the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and, best of all, it is free!!! Here is the Search link http://66.213.36.25/. To Link to the library image collection explanation, go here http://www.toledolibrary.org/collection/images.asp. I think one of the best sets are the Farm Jeep trials in New Hudson Michigan..Wow”
Here is some of the searches he has done: (Willys jeeps) (willys workers) (Jeep automobiles) (farm Jeep) (Willys factory) (Military).
Here’s some of the images found using the search term “jeep” — note that the term search term jeep doesn’t yield other pictures that I saw while surfing this site this morning.
I’m not sure I’d want to be in the vehicle in the pic below….
Interesting reading and photos. Thanks for sharing! I noticed the one jeep in the photo going for a swim full of guys is right-hand-drive. Is this correct or did the photo get processed in reverse somehow? Also, photo of jeeps and hay barn two photos lower shows a jeep in foreground running a belt. It’s got a column shifter and a tailgate, but the grill looks more like a MB than CJ2A…early prototype(?)
Great Stuff!!! thanks for sharing.
The jeep in the barn photo is a cj2 “agrijeep” which is a prototype. check out the cj2 page http://www.willys-overland.com/CJ2-37.htm
Thanks Joshua!
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