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, tailored to be towed by 1/4-ton

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. Versions of the quarter-ton jeep trailer remained in military use, by the U.S. or other countries, at least through to the 1990s.

History

When the U.S. Army developed the World War II jeep, it needed a cargo trailer that would track behind the vehicle. The first trailer was called the "Trailer, 1/4-ton, 2-Wheel, Cargo, Amphibian". More than 150,000 jeep trailers were built by over ten different companies, during World War II alone.''Jeep Bantam-Willys-Ford 1940-1945'', by Emile Becker & Guy Dentzer, (1994), se
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built some 75,000 of their T-3, and kept building jeep trailers after the war.

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also built more than 60,000 of their MBT units (Willys MB Trailers). Other manufacturers contributed only hundreds, or just a few thousand units. A special trailer was the Converto (Airborne) Dump Trailer, of which several thousand were built. Later versions of the trailer were the M100 trailer for the Willys M38 jeep and the M416 trailer for the M151 jeep. 1945 Willys jeep with trailer 3

Versions

* The

version came in both the standard, and K-38A versions. the K-38A was a modification of the K-38 trailer for the

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* The

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version, or M100 was also modified into the M367 trailer for the Signal corps. and also came in a plain chassis the M116. * The

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version, or M101CDN very closely resembles the M100, except it was manufactured in Winnipeg at Motor Coach Industries (MCI) for the Canadian Armed Forces. * The

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version, or M416 came in the following variants: M416 and M416A1 with square fenders, dedicated for the M151 jeep; the

M416B1 The M416, the last of the military 1/4 ton Jeep trailers, can be distinguished from earlier 1/4 ton trailers by its squared fenders. There were two later versions, the M416A1 and the M416B1. The M416B1 used the smaller 6.00 X 16 tires on M422 whee ...

towed by the

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M422 'Mighty Mite' helicopter liftable jeep, the M569 chassis, and the V-498 trailer for AN/TTC-41.

References

Notes

Bibliography

TM 9-2330-251-14 Trailer Cargo 1/4Ton

TM 9-2800 Standard Military Motor Vehicles. dated 1 sept. 1943

TM 9-2800 Military vehicles dated Oct. 1947

TM 10-1281 TRAILER 2 WHEEL 0,25 TON BANTAM MODEL T3

TM 10-1281 / ORD 8 SNL G-529 Ordnance Supply Catalog, July 1945
for Trailer, ¼-ton, 2-wheel, cargo
TM 11-227 Signal Communication Directory. dated 10 April 1944
* TM 11-487 Electrical Communication systems Equipment. dated 2 Oct. 1944

External links

* http://wwiijeepparts.com/Archives/JeepTrailer.html * http://www.olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_mbt.php * http://bantamt3c.com/ civilian version. {{WWII US Soft Vehicles Military trailers of the United States Jeep Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944