“Auburn MB” – Earliest Known Civilian Jeep Test
This 1942 “Auburn” MB Jeep is the earliest known documented “civilian” jeep. While there are drawings commissioned by I.B. Hazelton showing potential postwar uses for the jeep in the fall of 1941 and a photo of Willys-Overland president J.W. Frazer in a MA with a private 1942 Ohio license plate, this was a specially factory prepared MB whose purpose was…