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How Jeep Got it's Name

Early in 1941, Willys-Overland demonstrated the Bantam vehicle's off-road capability by having it drive up the steps of the United States Capital, driven by Willys test driver Irving "Red" Haussman, who had recently heard soldiers at Fort Holabird calling it a "jeep." When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News (or by a bystander, according to another account) what it was called, Irving answered, "It's a jeep."

Katherine Hillyer's article was published nationally on February 20, 1941, and included a picture of the vehicle with the caption: LAWMAKERS TAKE A RIDE

"With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one of the Army's new scout cars, known as "jeeps" or "quads", climbs up the Capitol steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed."

Although the term was also military slang for vehicles that were untried or untested, this exposure caused all other jeep references to fade, leaving the Bantam BRC 4x4 with the name.