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.
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