Maybe. Did you find that picture in Life magazine?
I wouldn’t mind road testing her.
“JEEP WAGONS’ GET TESTS AT FORT DIX
FORT DIX, N.J., march 21 - Driving one of the Army’s new “jeep wagons,” Major Gen. Clifford R Powell, Forty-fourth Division commander, passed the division’s “drivers clinic” today with flying colors
The tests comprised indoor and outdoor examinations and are conducted by enlisted personnel of the 119th Quartermaster Regiment. under the supervision of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.
After driving the “jeep wagon,”, officially known as a command car, cross-country through muddy fields and up and down steep slopes in gravel pits on the west side of the camp, General Powell said he was convinced that the new vehicles could do everything “except swim or climb a tree.”
Considered far more rigid than the examinations for State drivers’ license, the Army test includes besides cross-country driving, indoor tests for color blindness, steering with an artificial horizon, headlight glare and coordination. About 30 per cent of the nearly 5,000 auto and truck drivers of the division have failed to pass the tests. Those with poor coordination or those suffering night blindness are permanently rejected, but those who fail the road tests receive further training.
More than 3,000 divisional licenses have been issued by Colonel David S. Hill, division quartermaster, to drive any government vehicle. General Powell will also receive one of the cards..............................................