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1944 Photo of the 200,000th MB on eBay

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And who has this MB?

“1944- Ward Canaday, President of Willys-Overland, drives the 200,000 Jeep built in Toledo off the line on April 4, 1944. Mr. Canaday helped the company get a contract to make Jeeps during WWII, producing 363,000 of the total of 648,000 wartime Jeeps.”

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1944-04-04-200000-mb-ward-canaday1

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7 Comments on “1944 Photo of the 200,000th MB on eBay

  1. Minnesota Chris

    It would be great to have this jeep and be able to have an original photo of it when it was new

  2. Dexte

    Hmmmm…. MB200000 I believe was delivered the last week of December 1942 or first week of January 1943. Yet, the jeep pictures had a hood with grease gun bracket (see four bolts on the driver side of hood), which was not added until late 1944 or early 1945.

  3. Dexter

    I take that back. I keep forgetting the first standardized WW2 Jeep started with SN# MB100001. Which means the Jeep pictured is MB300001(?)

  4. mmdeilers Post author

    You had me confused until I went back to the serial numbers.

    Your example would be the 100,000th jeep not 200,000th. The 200,000th would be MB300000 in early 1944. In fact, the april photo seems a little late for MB300000. 🙂

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