United States Army Polices and manuals can be incredibly helpful to the jeep restorer and historian. It is most effective to start with Army Restrictions like AR 1-5, Index to Army Polices AR 850-5 Marking of Clothing, Machines, Vehicles and Property AR 850-10 Registration of Motor Autos and AR 850-15 Motor Motor vehicles (“the bible of motor motor vehicles”) amongst others.
Discipline Manuals like FM 21-6, List of Publications for Instruction FM 21-7 Record of Training Movies, Film Strips and Film Bulletins FM 25-10 Basic Industry Manual: Motor Transport Specialized Manuals] TM 9-2800 Typical Navy Motor Motor vehicles (ah, a reserve to drool in excess of) TM 9-2810 Motor Car or truck Inspections and Preventive Servicing Products and services TM 21-300 Driver Choice and Education and 1 of my favorites… TM 31-200 Maintenance and Care of Pneumatic Tires and Rubber Treads TM 38-250 Standard Routine maintenance Handbook then there are the car or truck Complex Manuals or TMs.
And there ended up War Office Circulars
- Schooling Circulars (“like TC 117 on the marking of bridges and cars”)
- Complex Bulletins – this would go over modifications to your vehicle
- TMs and would be included with the following TM modify
- Tables of Organization and Products – just how numerous jeeps and machine guns are intended to be in an Infantry Division?
There are Ordnance Field Assistance Publications
- Typical Nomenclature Lists – provides sections identification and allowances
- SNL “H” pieces in frequent
- SNL “K” includes cleansing, preserving, welding and lubricating elements
- SNL N-19 motor-transportation tool sets!
- SNL G-19 Interchangeability Chart of Organizational Unique Instruments for Fight Cars
Do not ignore… Industry Services Modification Function Orders (so you set up those favored mods they came up with like Winterization kits.) FSMWOs were being changed with MWOs.
Ordnance Discipline Services Bulletins
- OFSB 1-1 Index to Ordnance Publications
- OFSB 2-16 Storage and cargo of rubber tires, tubes and camelback
- OFSB 2-18 Requisition and issue of Spare Elements, Devices and Materials
- OFSB 2-25 Winterization machines for automotive substance
- OFSB 4-21 Gun mounts for general objective autos
This is not almost everything mentioned in the Environment War Two report but would be a superior begin for any collector. There are quite a few jeep specific publications and most of these appear to be missing from the normal jeep collectors library. Possibly anyone is setting on these and thinking of publishing them “someday”. Maybe they will appear ahead. And as mentioned just before there are original articles or blog posts from company publications, non-public and public that make intriguing reading and assortment. Several are still out there. Happy looking.