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It was completed in April 1937. Because the two-man crew lay prone, the vehicle was nicknamed the "belly flopper". The crew consisted of a driver and a gunner operating the .30 caliber machine gun.
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The Army invited representatives of automobile manufacturerers to examine the Howie in 1940, but the reception was not favorable and the vehicle was not accepted for production. Barney Roos, chief engineer of Willys Overland, examined it and later said "That belly flopper looked like nothing any automobile man had ever seen before, a cross between a kid's scooter and a diving board on wheels". The Howie is still in existence, at Fort Benning.
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Only one was built and the vehicle was never placed in production. Since then, it has remained an extremely uncommon drive layout throughout automotive history, used only by a few prototypes and concept cars, such as the 1937 Howie machine gun carrier (nicknamed "belly flopper"), Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car, which was able to turn within its wheelbase thanks to rear-wheel steering, www.thirteen.org Dymaxion Transport. accessed 21 March 2010 and the 1947 Gregory Sedan.
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The Howie machine gun carrier was a prototype American military reconnaissance and machine-gun carrier of the mid 20th century. The Howie (also called the Howie-Wiley and nicknamed the "belly flopper") never entered production. A single prototype was made of this early effort at military motorization, an initiative that later led to the highly successful Jeep. The vehicle was ordered by Walter Short, then assistant commander of the United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia, and built by Captain Robert G. Howie and Master Sergeant M. Wiley.
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