On Sun Mar 29, Pete Granzeau said to Bill Escue: 
 -PG>The "Jeeps" you are talking about are not the original Willys design, 
 -PG>they 
 -PG>are a later design from Ford.  They had 4-wheel independent 
 -PG>suspension, 
 -PG>using a swing axle (the same kind that made the early Corvairs 
 -PG>unsafe).  
 -PG>The Army managed to kill and maim a lot of soldiers who thought they 
 -PG>could 
 -PG>drive them on the highway at speed, just like a car (or a civilian 
 -PG>Jeep), 
 -PG>and ended up rolling them over in a corner.  In a convoy, they were 
 -PG>limited 
 -PG>to convoy speed, usually 45 mph.  The army also put low speed limits 
 -PG>on 
 -PG>them and put out a lot of warnings to drivers about the problem, as 
 -PG>well.  
 -PG>Soldiers can be made to drive government vehicles carefully.  It ain't 
 -PG>so 
 -PG>easy with a civilian population.
Some guys in my old national guard unit managed to roll an M151 on a dirt 
road doing about 30. The fender landed on one guys head and put a big dent in 
the fender, and burst a bunch of blood vessels in his eyeballs, but 
fortunately didn't mash his head.
 
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