Found this video of a Jungle Buggy in 1944?
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Found this video of a Jungle Buggy in 1944?
Here is a youtube link of video testing what appears to be a Jungle Buggy with the tiller arm steering. The video says 1944, did they have them that early? I thought mules came out in 56, 12 years later than this. https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip ... mtZJWM8_m4
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Re: Found this video of a Jungle Buggy in 1944?
That's the Willys Jungle Burden Carrier (JBC), prototype built during late WW-II. The Army didn't purchase any of them. This is the mule's great-grand father!
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Hi Chuck, looks like I got the name wrong then. Is that 1944 date correct? I thought the first mules were a decade later, was there a space that long between the two?
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I think so, 1944-45. Willys developed the prototype JBC, but by that time, the Army didn't feel like they had a need for this type vehicle. When the USMC started looking for a lightweight carrier in the 1950's Willys dusted off the plans and submitted a prototype XM274. Oddly, the XM274 used a 4-cylinder opposed-piston Continental engine. When the M274 went into production, the Willys AO-53 4-cylinder engine was used.Is that 1944 date correct?
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Neat photo Chuck, it appears that the XM 274 didn't have side rails and had that knee buster angled steering shaft gearbox. I'll bet that was brutal on your knee!
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Re: Found this video of a Jungle Buggy in 1944?
I wonder if there are any of those JBCs out there?
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Re: Found this video of a Jungle Buggy in 1944?
Only one that I am aware of, in a private collection.
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Re: Found this video of a Jungle Buggy in 1944?
Chuck, any guess how many were built as prototypes?
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