utility truck
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19970113-025
- Event 1945-1989 Cold War
- Affiliation --
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
AM General Corporation
Hunter Manufacturing Company - Date Made 1970
- Category Distribution and transportation artifacts
- Sub-category Land transportation, motorized
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1970/01/01
- Latest 1970/12/31
- Brand Name / Model M151A2 w/TOW (MUTT)
- Pattern Name Ford
- Service Component Canadian Forces
- Measurements Height 180.0 cm, Length 338.0 cm, Width 162.0 cm
- Caption The Mutt
- Additional Information Military Unit Tactical Trucks, or "Mutts", replaced Second World War Jeeps in Canadian service in the 1960s. They performed the same light cargo, passenger, scouting, and towing duties, and are still sometimes called Jeeps. This one, made by Ford Motor Company of Canada in 1970, carries a missile launcher.