Mahl Jeep Loader

UPDATE: Glenn shared this pic of restored Mahl Jeep Loader. It's located near Minneapolis.

ORIGINAL POST FROM 2012:

There appears to be an article about the Mahl Loader in the 1949 Municipal Journal & Engineer, Volume 80, but I can't read the whole article. Farm Implement News, Volume 70 page 149, from 1949 also has an article, again I can't read the whole thing.

EARLY MAHL PHOTOS FROM GLENN:

Glenn wrote, "Two years ago an old used car dealer from just north of Albany, NY came to me at my Flea Market booth in Stowe, VT. and told me he had a very odd snow plow attachment for a Jeep.  I sat him down and we went into The Willys Special Equipment Book. We identified what he had as a MAHL Willys Jeep Loader converted to a snow plow.

I went to his location and was shown a collection of parts scattered around his junk yard, with trees growing through it, which resembled The MAHL Loader as shown on the two page Sales Sheet.  I researched the history of this company and found it to be a Division of Standard Iron and Wire Works of the twin cities in Minnesota, today a giant cooperation run by descendants of the four founding brothers. MAHL is a name derived from the first initials of the founding brother's wives.

By sheer luck, I contacted a retired president of this cooperation, the son of a founder, and sure enough he located factory B/W pictures of The MAHL Willys Jeep Loader, on brand new CJ2A's, in development in 12/ 1947 and into 1948, as well as remembering working with the design engineers back in his high school days. Two years went by, with me urging the NY owner to get the stuff into a pile I could load, as he very well may be the only man on the planet able to identify the parts. Luck again was on the side of Willys History and I was able to pick it all up on my way back to Maine from The Great Willys Picnic.

Knowing full well at this stage of my advancing years, this bit of Willys past needed to be in the hands of ones wanting to preserve it, I again contacted the manufacturer to see if they wanted it back at headquarters.  Now, as I write this, The MAHL Willys Jeep Loader is going home to MN. The retired President of Standard Iron and Wire Works passed the ball to his son, who is now President, to take care of the restoration details.

In the future, I'm sure we'll see this piece of Willys History on display with other products that made this company what it is today.  I also hope Standard Iron and Wire Works will share their unique product with those of us out here in Willys World. As far as can be determined now, this is the only surviving example of The MAHL Willys Jeep Loader."

Other unusual loader links:
From the De Anza Cavalcade:

Here's another odd attachment:

And One more, The Jeep-A-Loader: