M151a2

rob love · #1 24-09-09, 03:57

Perhaps the kit was added to the basic vehicle post-service. I recall a story in one of the EME journals about one of the base workshops rebuilding a MUTT for the CWM. It may have been Kingston or Trenton if IRCC. Maybe someone made a decision to dress it up a bit, as opposed to having just a basic MUTT. The same thing happened here. A couple MPs restored a basic M38A1CDN3 for the Shilo Museum, and turned it into a MP Jeep while they were at it.

Ed Storey · #2 24-09-09, 11:53

Thank you for the information, this is great. When I read what Craig had posted I began to wonder how an M151A2 listed by DND with 1HQandSigs could become a TOW vehicle. If there is an article about DND 'fixing up' a M151A2 for the CWM I would like to see it as I think it would clinch the mystery of this vehicle.

If it was 'made up' by DND, just goes to show how a goodwill jesture can really foul up a historical record.

rob love · #3 24-09-09, 15:07

I only have the odd copies of the digest around, but not this one. It would have been from the 2000 to 2003 time period. I remember it mentioning they had difficulty finding engine parts like gaskets, and had to go to US dealers to find them.

Scott Bentley · #4 25-09-09, 23:04

Nevertheless, its an interesting conclusion.

The fact that it was the subject of an EME Journal article makes it nostalgic, original TOW or not.

I'm still curious about that damn grill. Especially now that we know it was not an original CF TOW MUTT. I wonder if there are more like it out there.

I'm curious to know how many "as served" Cdn TOW M151A2s are left intact. I know of Steve H's, and another in Oshawa that was for sale which appeared to be a former TOW. Any others out there?

Ed Storey · #5 26-09-09, 05:34

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

rob love · #6 29-09-09, 05:46

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.

Craig S. · #7 29-09-09, 17:33

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.