The purpose of this site is to act as a repository for early Jeep documentation. This includes items such as drawings, blueprints, photos, correspondence and period magazine articles. Throughout the history of the Jeep, there has been a variety of wrong information reported on what transpired. People publishing new books tend to use older books for their design ideas. These books in turn are used by other people to create newer books. Just like the game where you have a line of people and whisper to the person next to you something and they repeat it to the other person next to them, when it gets to the end, what is being reported may not be anything like what really happened. The goal of this web site is to track down and make available as many of the original source (or what can be called "primordial") documents. These documents can tell the true Jeep story.

	Original Source	Provided By
US Army	US Army Sources
US Congress	August 14, 1941 - 'Reconnaissance, or 'Jeep', Motor Cars' - H. Ralph Burton, Investigator, House Of Representative Committee On Military Affairs	Robert Notman
American Bantam Car Company	Bantam BRC-60 Production Figures by Chester Hemphling - December 17, 1940	Bill Spear
American Bantam Car Company	December 1982 - We Were Beaten by the Roosevelts - as told by Ralph Turner - by Bob Lindsey	Bill Spear
American Bantam Car Company	19880725 - Getting Acquainted with the Bantam - Bob Lindsey	Bill Spear
American Bantam Car Company	July 27, 1988 - A Personal Interview of Chet Hempling as told to Bob Lindsey	Bill Spear
American Bantam Car Company	July 28, 1988 - From Bob Lindsey notes from Interview of Chet Hempfling	Bill Spear
American Bantam Car Company	1988 - Walter Hempling - Personnel Manager - as told to Bob Lindsey	Bill Spear
Willys-Overland Motors, Incorporated	A-2812 - 19420503 Revision Blueprint	Todd Paisley
Ford Motor Company
FTC Hearings	February 10, 1943 - FTC Hearings - Gen. Lynch	Robert Notman
	FTC - Payne Testimony	Bill Spear
Personal Letters	February 20, 1941 - Letter, I.F. Stone, Editor 'The Nation' to Charles Payne, American Bantam	Robert Notman
Period Media Articles	"The Howie Machine-Gun Carrier" by Captain Wendell G. Johnson, Infantry - Infantry Journal - November-December 1937	Todd Paisley
	"Behind the Ford Contract" by I. F. Stone - The Nation - December 14, 1940	Todd Paisley
	"The Shape of Things" - Editorial on the Ford Contract by I. F. Stone - The Nation - January 4, 1941	Todd Paisley
	"The Shape of Things" - Editorial on the Ford Contract by I. F. Stone - The Nation - January 11, 1941	Todd Paisley
	"Willys-Overland Gets Army Favor on Midget Cars" - I. F. Stone - February 16, 1941	Robert Notman
	Cavalry Tests Substitute for Motorcycles - Pennsylvania Guardsman Monthly - March 1941	Robert Notman
	March-April 1941 - Quartermaster Review - The Army 'Bug' - By Lt. E. P. Hogan, Q.M.C.	Robert Notman
	"The Versatile Jeep" - The Field Artillery Journal - Captain George Ruhlen - June 1941	Robert Notman
	September-October 1941 - Quartermaster Review - The Story of the Quarter-Ton - By Lt. E. P. Hogan, Q.M.C.	Robert Notman
	"The Story Behind the Army Jeep" - John W. Chapman Illustrated Gazette - Vol 1 No 4 - pg.1,2,6,8 - August 1942	Robert Notman
	"The Airplane, Not the Jeep, Is Jeep Man's True Love" - John W. Chapman Illustrated Gazette - Vol 1 No 4 - pg.2 - August 1942	Robert Notman
	"Willys and QMC Take the Bows" - John W. Chapman Illustrated Gazette - Vol 1 No 4 - pg.6 - August 1942	Robert Notman
	"Original Jeep in Smithsonian" - John W. Chapman Illustrated Gazette - Vol 1 No 4 - pg.8 - August 1942	Robert Notman
	"Amazing Blitz Buggy" by Joseph W. Frazer - Liberty - June 19, 1943 - pg.16,17,40,41	David Aro
	"Is the Jeep Here to Stay?" by Francis Fenn - Forbes Magazine - November 15, 1944	Todd Paisley
	"The Miller Dynasty" - Mark Dees - 1981 - exerpt from Chapter 73
	March-April 1982 - Looking Back - Harold Crist - The Man and His Machines - George Domer.htm	Bill Spear

Willys-Overland Home Early Jeep Documents Home