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On this day in 1942, Byron Q. Jones was granted U.S. Patent No. 2,278,450 for a MILITARY VEHICLE BODY.
The invention described herein, if patented, may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes without the payment of any royalty thereon.
The present invention relates to motor vehicles and more particularly to a small car vehicle body having convertible features whereby it is rendered particularly desirable for military purposes.
One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a convertible small car body so arranged that a single vehicle may be interchangeably used as a cargo truck, personnel carrier, emergency ambulance, field beds, radio car, trench mortar unit, mobile anti-aircraft ma chine gun unit, or for other purposes.
A further object of the invention is to provide an all-purpose small car body including shiftable seats, side panels and body panels whereby the various shiftable panels may be arranged to assume different positions in order to make the body particularly adapted to the several different military uses above mentioned.
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