11 Facts About Willys MB

Willys MB turned the MB into the civilian Jeep in 1945, making the world's first mass-produced civilian four-wheel drive.

Willys MB was the first to deploy motorcycles, in the Mexican Border War, predominantly a cavalry campaign over wide regions of the Southwest, where Harley-Davidson motorcycles provided to the Army gave the US the advantage over the horse-mounted Mexicans.

The design features in the Bantam and Ford entries which represented an improvement over Willys MB's design were incorporated into the Willys MB, moving it from an "MA" designation to "MB".

Willys MB submitted blueprints, and records of performance of his prototype to Marine Corps Commandant Lt.

Willys MB was contracted that month for both a T13 and a T14 Gun Motor Carriage, based on the Willys MB MA – one firing forward, and one rearwards, like the earlier Bantams.

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The snow-rich circumstances created a need for tracked, jeep-like, all-purpose vehicles, and the Canadian Bombardier company and Willys MB created the T29 jeep half-track out of one of the existing 6x6 Willys MB MT chassis.

Willys MB was enlisted to go to the event and give a demonstration ride to a group of dignitaries, including Katherine Hillyer, a reporter for the Washington Daily News.

Willys MB made its first 25,000 MB Jeeps with a welded flat iron "slat" radiator grille.

From 1945 onwards, Willys MB marketed its four-wheel drive vehicle to the public with its CJ versions, making these the world's first mass-produced 4WD civilian cars.

The commission forbade Willys MB from claiming, directly or by implication, that it had created or designed the jeep, and allowed it only to claim that it contributed to the development of the vehicle.

Willys MB left rear quarter: split combat rims, spare gas can and spare wheel.