Origin of Jeep

Jeep designed in England, was born in America?

Iconic Jeep is really an American military vehicle for its raw power and rugged durability. What many people don't realize that jeep had its roots much further forward than in America. He was actually across the Atlantic Ocean in the green fields of England, where the history of the Jeep.

Contrary to what many consider the Jeep wasn't actually a Willys, American car manufacturer, but the American Bantam. It began life in the United States subsidiary of the British Austin company car.

Austin automobile company established its new branch in the United States the American Austin car company, later became an American Bantam company, as a means of production and its seven Austin model.

Unfortunately for Austin small Austin seven was not well-suited for United States market, and sales were poor. Thus the company Austin decided to withdraw from the United States market. The President of the American company Austin spotted the potential for Austin's technology in America and bought the company from the renaming it American Bantam. The new company made adjustments to Austin seven making it more suitable for the American market, these adjustments included increasing the size of the car, as well as the increase in the size of the fuel tank, which made the car much more suited to certain parts of the United States, where the city, next to each other.

Bantam draw on the success of adapted Austin

Sales of the Austin 7 now steady and American Bantam important funds for research and development. Spotting an opportunity within the US military in military vehicle lightweight American Bantam company requested the National Guard and gave them a few cars to be used as a Scouting vehicle. Although it took some time, the u.s. military finally spotted the potential for military vehicle rugged low weight and entered into negotiations with the Bantam.

Born Jeep

It was from these negotiations between the United States military was born to Bantam and the first prototype Jeep. Although impressed with the new vehicle, the US military was concerned about the ability to produce a new Bantam car in sufficiently large quantities to meet military requirements. It is for these reasons, the military decided to manufacture Jeep trails.

Jeep trails

Requirements for Jeep trails have been made clear to competing manufacturers. These were:

o create a prototype to meet stringent military specifications for 49 days.

o If the prototype was a suitable inspection team of engineers and 70 more officers then must vehicle was built within 75 days really hard for even larger producers.

Tedious trial and demanding technical specifications folded, the u.s. military put most producers from participating, but three, the producers decided to compete in these trails were Willys, Bantam and Ford, who later joined the trail.

Bantam clearly won the first round of testing by Jeep. They produced a prototype, which came close to the military requirements, although a little more than a prototype Bantam weight, was very good for all the tests carried out by the military.

The Bantam car, all the requirements of the military instructed Bantam produce even 70 vehicles within 75 days.

Great injustice Jeep

Though Bantam was the only company to pass the original element is concerned, military trail Bantam ability to produce enough money, so he gave a mixed design created by Bantam, Ford and Willys, which their prototypes, highly original design drawings to Bantam.

United States Government, then decided to divide its order for new vehicles between Bantam, Willys and Ford, even though Willys and Ford designs essentially was derived from Bantam.

In 1941, the Government of the United States has decided to standardize the jeep and therefore contracted Willys as design low production costs. The original designers, American Bantam Jeep company, who used the Austin technology from the UK, is now completely cut off production of the Jeep.

Toby Hill – Jeep enthusiasts, used in http://www.cheapchryslerjeep.co.uk now as marketing.