My new 1943 Willys MB

[Eric B]

Hello Jordan

Me again

We bought 1942 MB's new on contract with Willys. These would have had the unique Canadian mods. The blackout lights would not have been moved to the fenders. There would be a convoy light on the rear axle with the switch on the dash. If this was there than this jeep would have been used in Europe. If this is not there and is a Canadian Contract then it would have remained here in Canada. Only those assembled in the UK had the axle light installed.

We did receive used MB's and GPW's later in the war with no special mods to them. As i indicated in the previous message some of these were provided to us by the British so would have had the blackout lights on the fender.

There were no hard and fast rules to what was or not done to the jeeps once in the field.

Jeeps remaining in Canada generally had no modifications done to them and remained a plain Jane jeep unless under trials.

Please feel free to contact me if you need more info.

Thanks

Eric