The May 1958 issue of Jeep News was only four pages, but the marketing managed to pack in some interesting tidbits. On page one the company discussed the new 3/4 mechanical mule-like prototype. Included is a pic of a model; I wonder what happend to the model? Also on page one, in the lower right of the page is a story about Hugh Smith purposefully driving a jeep through a garage wall to save his brother from a burning garage.
Page two features several FCs, but the one that looks the most interesting (to me) is the unit with the “Samp-O-Rama” traveling meat counter built for Armour and Company in Atlanta.
Page three has a few DJ-3As. Page four features a story about Mr. S. W. Christie, whose contracting company owned 24 jeeps. Despite all the jeeps he owned, he decided to build his young boys a toy jeep of their own.
Did the Willys version of the VW engine, ever make it to production?
I never spied one of those troop/cargo carriers it was meant for either.
There was an air-cooled engine added to M-274-2, but whether that is the engine discussed in the article or not I couldn’t say.
I discovered the Mule was evaluated as a possible moon vehicle: https://web.archive.org/web/20100525033611/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730061716_1973061716.pdf
Thanks Dave. Where on earth do you find this kinda shtuff!!! Looks interesting. 400+ pages is typical gubmint paperwork, overkill. Pardon me if’n I don’t provide a review soon…I never tackled War & Peace yet neither.
In this case, it was just dumb luck. I was trying to answer you question when this doc popped up on Google.
War & Peace is actually a fair easy read; it’s just a big soap opera. Tolstoy’s stuff was pretty interesting overall (I had a “Russian period” after high school, but before college, when I read Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Pushkin, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky, which was also the time-frame when working on my first jeep .. yes, I had no gf at the time, lol)