Making Jeeps

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On Tuesday, February 10, 1942, the last Ford car to be built until 1945 rolled off the assembly line as auto plants geared up for production of tanks, aircraft, and Jeeps for World War II.  The name?  The most widely-held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep.

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