Various light motor vehicles were tested — at first motorcycles with and without sidecars, and some modified Ford Model Ts. In the early 1930s, the U.S. Army experimented with a bantam weight "midget truck" for scouts and raiders. A, low-slung mini-car with a pick-up body, provided by American Austin, was shown in a 1933 article in "Popular Mechanics" magazine. One of the pictures showed that the vehicle was light enough to be man-handled — four soldiers could lift it from the ground entirely.