Penguin Mkll

[Joe Lorenzino]

I got a phone call this week from a fellow in Regina SK, who has just recently purchased another Penguin MK3. It is running & driving (with a Buick engine). It was advertised on Kijiji Regina, and was located only minutes out of the city. His interest is in snow vehicles, and he also has a refurbished SureGo. His shop in Regina is named Precision Motorsports, and his name is C M Ross.

He is looking for information/parts to start a restoration on this unit, and is interested in contacting other Penguin owners.

[Bob Phillips]

I would like to post a few questions about the much discussed topic of CDN snowmobiles.

1 Did anyone come up with an easy way to identify a mk2 vs mk3 penguin?
what are the major differences?

2 Were mk1 Penguins (15 for Muskox) new machines or converts from armoured snowmobiles? I have found some detailed pics of them being built at Ottawa car & Foundry in 1946 and there is no sign of front armour ( as with mk2s)

3 The DND snowmobile projects did not end with the Penguin. In 1947 DND had prototypes built of a 3/4 ton oversnow vehicle (Beaver) and also 2.5 ton vehicle (Wapiti). Are there any surviving Beaver oversnow vehicles?? They were Ford built using a V8 engine.These were not completed until 1951=52. By the way the final costs on these last two vehicles were extremely high ($3-400,000 per vehicle)...B.P.

[Marc Montgomery]

Bob- I remember there was a Wapiti parked in a small display area just inside the Longue Pointe base in east end Montreal..along with a couple other older MVs and an old M-109 howitzer. I remember thinking at the time it was a fairly big snow machine...at the time I had never seen one before.... This would have been late 1990;s?
When i finally found out what it was, I went back to Longue Pointe, but it was gone although the M-109 was still there.
No idea where it went...no one seems to know.