Wartime Wireless Equipped Jeeps

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

While looking for wireless info on the web this evening, I ran across this 1944 dated Life Magazine photo, location unidentified, of what looks like factory new vehicles fitted with wireless equipment.

Note the while ‘S’ stenciled on the cowl corners, the generator cover fitted between the front seats, and the wooden cases mounted to the rear wheel wells.


David

Hardwood blocks on the hood, indicating 1943 production?
https://g503.com/oldsite/parts/hood-block.htm

I also wondered what the extra screws, or rivets, were in the windscreen panel....but Hanno's pictures clearly shows that the inside of the screen is the location for stroing the antenna rods(?)