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Another M151A2 TOW

Looking through my M151A2 imaages, the vehicle I photographed in 1985 does not show up on the list.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ainwrightR.jpg

I am in Ottawa for a week, and managed to get downtown today to the CWM and see this TOW M151A2 on display. The grill is very likely homemade, and certainly not to the normal quality of production of 202 workshop. The holes for the headlamps were torch cut, and very rough at that. The screen is also much more coarse than the normal MUTT grills were. If this was a 202 workshop production grill, then I would suggest they were having an off day.

I am not sure this Mutt was a standard CDN MUTT, since it does not exhibit holes for a roll cage. Mind you, they may heve been welded up. The commisionaire kinds of frowns when you start trying to look underneath the trucks. It will be intersting to hear the history behind this truck one day....I'm sure someone will run into it.

As an aside, it was nice to see so many Cdn vehicles under one roof. Mind you, it was kind of odd seeing vehicle types that I worked on, and in some cases even in inspected when they were brought into service, now residing in a national museum.

CFR#09526 shows up as ECC121401, a regular M-151A2, belonging to 2FdAmb in April 1977. It went on to the Canadian Airborne Regiment according to some work orders for April 1981 time frame; the first W.O. listed is for that unit.

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Originally Posted by edstorey (Post 118955)

Scotty:

Thank you for fishing out the 'needle in the haystack', the vehicle in question 74-09204 is a M151A2 with TOW and is in the CWM collection in Ottawa. It has recently been restored and is now on display in the Lebreton gallery. Here is an image of it in the 'shop' before going out on the floor.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ftobliquev.jpg

I actually have a photoraph of 74-09207 that I took outside of the CANEX in CFB Wainwright during RV85.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Wainwright.jpg

I have confirmed the serial number on this vehicle and it is in fact 43710 CFR 74-09207.

The same truck Ed took an image of in 1985! How cool is that!

Ed and Clive Thank you so much for this! Your efforts documenting Canadian military vehicles over the years are very much appreciated and this would not have been possible without your forethought and efforts.

Ed, I don't know if you ever figured that one day you would run into that truck again but imagine that you're now quite glad that you thought to snap a pic of it!