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Originally Posted by Colin Macgregor Stevens
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Colin, thanks for the compliment, and for you help. When I initially published that web page some 6 years ago -with help from the very same people contributing here - very little seemed to be known about the "74 pattern jeep" in Canadian service (at least to me!). I'm glad this and other forums have yielded more information and photos.
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Originally Posted by Colin Macgregor Stevens
but it perpetuates the myth that calls the M151A2 MUTT a "jeep". It is NOT a jeep even though the Canadian Forces and its soldiers often called it a jeep. The MUTT was an independent design that simply resembles a jeep in size and 4x4 but it is not part of the jeep family.
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are aware that years before the Bantam/Willys quarter ton truck was named jeep, or let alone Willys trademarking "Jeep", this nickname was applied to utility vehicles being able to do things deemed impossible. Therefore I chose to use the use the nickname jeep, just like many soldiers have and will do, when referring to a small 4WD vehicle. This has nothing to do with the use of the "Jeep" trademark - I´m sure you´ll agree today´s Jeep is much further away from the WW2 jeep than the M151-series. . . .
Best regards,
Hanno