Did W-O make their own trailers at some point?

[jeepfreak81]

I have a crappy cell phone pic of a small trailer on the expressway yesterday. It is wider, longer and shorter then the standard 1/4 ton trailer. The tailgate had the old W-O logo embossed into it. The trailer was obviously old enough to be of the era....

[sparky]

You sure it wasn't just a utility truck bed

[jeepfreak81]

You sure it wasn't just a utility truck bed

It may have been if it was cut down (height wise), I'll have to get the pics off my phone. I misplaced the adapter for it :(

[Robert Bills]

Willys Overland did not build trailers. My guess is the same as above, a trailer made from a Willys Overland pickup truck bed or perhaps home built with a Willys tailgate.

[jpflat2a]

I'm not an expert on trailers, but I did see a W/O trailer at a swap meet in Quartzite AZ a couple years ago.
In fact, I drove back out the next weekend to buy it and it had already been sold.
It supposedly came from a cattle ranch in Montana and was sold to someone in Joshua Tree here in Calif.
I couldn't believe my eyes; the ID tag on the front of the trailer was 100 % Willys Overland. Appeared simliar to a Bantam.
and....I have been kicking myself ever since
I had never seen one tagged as W/O and my dad and I stared at in disbelief, as I didn't think W/O made trailers either.
guess I'll never resolve that issue now..at least in my own mind.

[Robert Bills]

Willys Overland built military trailers during WWI, known as the MBT. Bantam built a nearly identical trailer, known as the T3. Neither had tailgates.

The trailer mentioned at the top of the thread (longer, wider than Bantam with Willys Overland logo on tailgate) is probably made from a W/O pickup bed.

Willys Overland never built 1/4 trailers for the civilian market. However, if you look at the Willys Overland product literature from the post-war years, there are illustrations/photos in the brochure for Willys Overland "authorized accessories," of what is clearly a Spen trailer. Spen built 1/4 trailers sold under the Willys Overland name as an authorized accessory, and during the same period Bantam built 1/4 trailers sold through Sears under the "Hiawatha" name (in addition to selling them directly with a "Bantam" ID tag, model T3-C).

The trailer with the Willys Overland ID tag described by jpflat2A was most likely a Spen with W/O identification

[jpflat2a]

thanks Mr. Bills.
that clears that up.
I know what I saw on that tag.

[jeepfreak81]

I haven't found the adapter for my phone yet to get the pic uploaded either, it was probably a PU bed though.

[Malachai]

jeepfreak, do you have the ability to send pics to an email address? I know with my phone one of the easiest ways for me to get the pics is to send them to myself and then upload them to wherever I want to post them...

[dauntless_powered]

yup or send them to my phone and i will upload for you, let me know if you want my cell number

[jeepfreak81]

I have picture messenging turned off, it wasn't worth it for me as no one I know has Nextel anymore, and we get charged to send off network people pics. I have never had an issue with Nextel so I still have them R)

I will have to look around upstairs at my desktop for the adapter.