Willys was the brand name of Willys-Overland Motors, the Toledo based American automaker founded around John North Willys, who bought the Overland company in 1908 and renamed it Willys-Overland in 1912. For a time it was the second largest car maker in the United States after Ford. The company is best known for building the Willys MB, the most produced military jeep of the Second World War, and for turning the Jeep name into a trademark that it was awarded in 1950, along with the civilian CJ series that followed. After the war it concentrated on Jeep vehicles, returned to passenger cars in 1952 with the compact Willys Aero, and built the Aero and other cars in Brazil. Kaiser Motors bought the company in 1953, and when Kaiser Jeep Corporation was formed in 1963 the Willys name disappeared in the United States.
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Early history
In 1908, John Willys bought the Overland Automotive Division of Standard Wheel Company and in 1912 renamed it
The Brazilian era
In America, the company had already changed its name in 1963 to Kaiser-Jeep Corporation; the Willys name disappeared thereafter.
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an American automobile company, founded by John North Willys
In Group: Automobile Makes, 1950s
In 1952, Willys re-entered the car market with a new compact car, the Willys Aero.
Has Vehicles: M274 Mechanical Mule, Postwar struggles, Jungle Burden Carrier
In 1948, under a contract from the U.S. Army, Willys produced a small one-man four-wheeled utility vehicle called the Jungle Burden Carrier which evolved into the M274
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manufactured first by Willys-Overland
Willys 77 (Wikipedia)
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sold from 1933 to 1942 by Willys
Willys Americar (Wikipedia)
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produced by Willys-Overland Motors from 1937 to 1942
Willys-Knight (Wikipedia)
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produced between 1914 and 1933 by the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio
Overland Automobile (Wikipedia)
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Willys-Overland continued to use the Overland marque until 1926, when it became the Overland Whippet and then Willys Whippet.
Stearns-Knight (Wikipedia)
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Willys operated Stearns-Knight as a non-integrated affiliate of Willys-Overland until 1929 when the F.B. Stearns Company was liquidated.
Falcon-Knight (Wikipedia)
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Falcon-Knight was a brand of automobile produced between 1927 and 1928 by the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio.
Willys Interlagos (Wikipedia, Portuguese)
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Veículos da Willys Overland
Willys Itamaraty (Wikipedia, Portuguese)
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Veículos da Willys Overland
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