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In 1938, completed Business Bantam development viacúčelového ľahkého terénneho car pre military purposes, but ran into nezáujem armádnych zložiek. After the outbreak of the military kofliktu in Europe in 1939 usúdili responsible, that a similar vehicle, the army needs and in júli 1940 issued format requirements for new terénne vehicle. Vehicle malo mať max. the rate of a minimum of 88,5 km/h and minimálnu change ako 5 km/h. Malo albeit capable of without preparation prebrodiť vodnú prekážku hlbokú of 0.45 m, max. hmotnosť 953 kg pri pohone 4x2 and 987 kg pri pohone 4x4 and užitočné zaťaženie malo dosahovať 363 kg. Pre činnosť in zasneženom field sa requested option must use a reťaze. Predný nájazdový uhol bol desired at the level of 45° and a container of 35°.
Ochre prísnych technical požiadaviek bol limitujúci aj timetable - proposals from firiem sa had to doručiť to 11 days from vyhlásenia súťaže and prototype after approval of the proposal had to albeit are introduced into 49 days. Nevertheless sa to súťaže volunteers 3 company - Willys-Overland, Ford Motors and the American Bantam.
Konštruktérsky by American Bantam took your skúsenosti and during the 47 days, completed a prototype and two days, in stanovenom termíne 23.09.1940, prototype - Bantam GPV (General Purpose Vehicle) or Pilot Model Mk. I introduced the army to the grand Camp Holabird in Baltimore. Bantam was the only výrobca, who added the prototype in a timely manner, but did not meet prísny weight limit (pohotovostná hmotnosť prototype bola 835 kg, then the total hmonosť with the desired nákladom high prevyšovalo špecifikovaných 953 kg). During the subsequent skúškach army naviac found advice another nedostatkov, and the prototype returned to the dopracovanie. On the basis of armádnych poznatkov bol prototype groomed and opäť are introduced to the army. Video sa Bantam Mk. II (vyrábaný ako BRC-60) from the prototype líšil najmä square blatníkmi.
The army at business Bantam has ordered 70 pcs overovacej series (in this number is but rátaný aj prototype Bantam GDV), ktoré boli made into decembra 1940.
Development but continued and both konkurenčné company well predstavili my vozidlá, what resulted in another adjustment aj in Bantamu and začiatkom year 1941 bola predstavená verzia Mk. III (Bantam BRC-40). In marci 1941 sa began serial production of the 1500 ordered kusov, who was terminated in júli 1941, but followed ďalšie orders and production then continued until decembra 1941. In this period the army prehodnotila your format requirements and decided that from dôvodu unifikácie and obmedzovania nákladov will naďalej odoberať vozidlá len one of the manufacturers. In this súťaži najmä lower nákladmi won Willys-Overland (typom Willys MB) and the production at better than bola nútene pledged. Väčšina produced džípov from Bantamu bola in the framework of the dodávok Lend-Lease granted Veľkej Britain and Sovietskemu zväzu.
From the time of 69 produced vozidiel BRC-60 sa in the dnešných days maintain one exemplár, v. 7 (1007).
On the basis of zverejnených údajov about konštrukcii this vehicle in a trade kicking sa v rokoch 1940-1941 in USSR began the development of terénneho car GAZ-64.
Bantam BRC-60, expozícia Senator John Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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