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This April of 1946 article in Popular science highlighted the steering mechanism used on the four wheel steel “Circus” jeeps.
My Denali PU truck has 4 wheel steer. All wheel drive.
Above 35 mph, the front wheels and rear wheels turn in different directions when taking a turn.
Have you seen the article in Farm Collector magazine? 4 pages on 5 different Jeep loaders. Done by Jim Gay.
No. I haven’t. Is it a new article?
Raises a lotta ???’s fer me. Did they reverse cut gears for the rear, flipped, front axle.
& it looks like a driver drop Xfer case & f. pumpkin in the picture. But then….I’m an ol fart w/bad eyes, who sometimes can’t get his front or rear in gear.
That’s a Bantam BRC-40 4 wheel steer prototype…. very rare.
What’s even cooler is we think we know which BRC-40 is pictured above in the article. It is currently going through a restoration. More on that in a future post.
Vernon: According to this site http://wwiijeepparts.com/Archives/JeepSerialNumber.html#WWIISerialNumbers , Bantam (BRC-40), Ford (GP), and Willys (MA) all built 50 four-wheel-steer jeep prototypes. There were also 50 Ford GPW four-wheel-steering jeeps built. Most were lost.
Dave,
You have info on the company that made the steering according to the article.
http://www.ewillys.com/2012/07/19/the-king-of-jeeps-bergs-truck-and-parts-co-inc/
“Thanks Steve. I also snagged one of their early mailers, too: http://www.ewillys.com/2016/10/30/bergs-jeep-king-mailer/