Studebaker Weasel

View of a Studebaker Weasel, a military vehicle used as a personnel and supply carrier. Label on back: "A radical vehicle of war, which has been in secret production at the Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend, Ind., for almost two years, has just been revealed by the War Department. It is the 'Weasel,' (known to the Army as the M-29), a low-slung, square-faced personnel and supply carrier that is capable of operating over snow, deep mud, sand or on paved highways -- a greater variety of terrain conditions than possible in any other vehicle. Chief reason for the Weasel's ability to negotiate terrain impassable to conventional wheeled or track-laying vehicles is light weight combined with broad tracks. Pressure on the ground exerted by the Weasel is about one-fourth that of a fully equipped infantryman. Tracks are rubber-padded and powered by a Studebaker Champion passenger car engine located in front and at the right of the driver. Weasels are equipped with a demountable top and camouflaged in black and white for missions in snow countries." Handwritten on back: "Weasels."