Willys MB cusshions set with zipper

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Willys MB cusshions set with zipper

Post by aldos » Wed Mar 21, 2018 5:38 am

Hi all,

What do you think of these cushions?

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Post by hopps1945 » Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:30 am

I agree with Farrell, MB style bottoms with GPW style tops. It is hard to tell, is the dividing piece in the bottom cushions that would have been between the pocket and the padding?

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Post by aldos » Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:40 am

Looks like you have MB bottom cushions with GPW upper cushions. Odd that they have no springs or padding. The bottoms are mutch thicker than the drawings. What do the sides measure?

I suspect these are reproductions using original materials.
The upper cushions are nearly 1" and 2" for the bottoms, what makes you say that it's reproductions with originals materials?

Here somes pictures of the rear seat cushion placed under an other rear seat cushion i have:

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Details of the stitchings on a rear cushion i had (this is from an original willys):
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Post by aldos » Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:50 am

less than 1/2 inch wide

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Re: Willys MB cusshions set with zipper

Post by majmacs » Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:33 am

Farrell Fox wrote:
Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:53 am
aldos wrote:
Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:40 am
The upper cushions are nearly 1" and 2" for the bottoms, what makes you say that it's reproductions with originals materials?
Along with the details I listed above, the construction is not quite right compared to drawings and original examples.

The zippers are definitely original as they are no longer made. Someone spent a lot of time making them, as you can see some of the mistakes they made and fixed.
The only original production seat zippers I’ve seen were at Paolo’s workshop in Italy. His sister showed them to me when I was there and she said the cost of buying they was ridiculous. Paolo said he was considering expanding into tops and other canvas while I was there last summer. A veritable Aladdin’s cave of Jeep and WC stuff in there.......
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Re: Willys MB cusshions set with zipper

Post by aldos » Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:16 am

No need to prolong the suspense any longer! Farrell you were absolutely right!
This set of cushions has been make by myself with original canvas from a US WW2 tent (theses tent was purchased from a farmer near Reims in France wich had them just after the war with plan marshall.
The zippers i used was purchased in a batch of 70 of them it was sewed on us ww2 sleeping bags (tents and sleeping bags was unusable)
The canvas is just a little lighter than the original but the colour is of course the same as the original.

I am also making the S spings to put into the cushions starting an original model.


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