Willyslancs

Inflatable plane!!.....

sorry to hear the sad news mate...............

thought i would ask again , as its been a while ...................................... cheers guys !

another one ........

What kind of date/period would you put on this please guys , previous owner thinks their dad may have used it in the navy in 43 ............. (not as new looking in natural light, the flash makes it look modern)

welcome along , lets have pics please mate ...........:cool2:

just found these tonight ......

found this pic , thought it had great detail ......(US Marines aboard an LST en route to New Britain,Dec 44)

couple more , not sure about the frame on the front in one pic......

very interesting program ........

Hi welcome along mate , hope you get the information your after ........

is this the one that use to be up here in lancashire ? ( ex john horner?)

interesting looking cab on a jeep in an interesting looking yard ......

would have thought they would have left the tyre here when it was put into production.Certainly easier for the driver to get out ...

Never seen one :wow: caption:- “Synthetic JEEPS – Here’s a jeep you simply blow up like you do a tire. It doesn’t go anywhere, of course, but it is designed to deceive at distances up to 500 feet. Pneumatic jeep, high fidelity model, is one of many used as decoys during the war. Tanks and guns were also made of rubber for purposes of subterfuge.

well certainly the ones with jerry cans lol ...... dare say someone will post a pic mate

jerry can strap bracket mate .......

sorry to hear the bad news mate .............

mine is blocked for 090 numbers , BT phoned me once to ask if i was aware someone was using my number whilst i was on line(when i had dial up years ago).....

yes seen that before there is a frontal pic too ........

While some boys out in the Pacific decided to rebody their Jeeps using aircraft drop tanks, Wally Cohn came up with a different approach. Much like Brooks Stevens with the Victory Car, Cohn envisioned a somewhat more refined automobile body to go atop the Jeep four-wheel-drive chassis to create a new offering for the post-war economy. Unlike Brooks Stevens, however, he didn't have access to the head honchos in Toledo; instead, he was serving with the U.S. occupation forces (possibly with the Army Air Force) in Germany just after the war. Also unlike Brooks Stevens (unless you count the Jeepster or the Willys station wagon), Cohn saw his vision to fruition. He found a workspace, apparently hired some German craftsmen, then cut apart a late 1930s Opel Olympia to merge its body with a Willys MB grille, chassis and drivetrain. Walter Sanders, a photographer for LIFE magazine, discovered Cohn and his Jeep in December 1946 and took plenty of pictures of the well-finished hybrid, along with pictures of Cohn's workshops, and filed them with LIFE shortly after.

oh my god !!! (men from the 478th Air Service Squadron with their “streamlined Jeep,” the product of spare time, a wrecked Jeep and a couple crashed airplanes. “They made a racer type body from the cowling of a C-46 engine, fashioned fenders out of emergency gas tanks and wound up with a speedy little runabout,”).......

yep seen them before , the milan one was a mates up here ....good pics tho

seen a few wartime pics of the extra bonnet catches there , stops it flapping (works on ours)........

love this post war example