In 1940, after World War II had separated, the united states fundamental staff ordered different factories to build a light multi-purpose vehicle with all-wheel drive. The United states Bantam business, Willys Overland, and Ford engine Co. competed with every other.Willys model wound up being plumped for, which, after a short run of 1500 cars, went into mass manufacturing at first of 1941 and reached an entire production of 640.000 products from which 277.000 pieces have been produced by Ford under a licensing agreement. This shows the Jeep have been the most commonly produced light vehicle of this war industry during World War II.