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The Lightweight of 1968 had been narrowed and stripped so a Wessex could lift it. By the Wolf era the helicopters were Pumas and Chinooks and the problem had eased, but the requirement had not gone away, and the Wolf programme included a 90 in air-portable form: the TUL — Truck Utility Light — with lifting fittings on the body for an underslung load, a canvas tilt over the rear, and the spare mounted high on the side out of the way of the load bed.
A surviving example offered for sale carries the standard Wolf specification: the 2.5-litre 300 Tdi, 24-volt electrics and NATO tow hitch, with an internal roll-over protection system, and later civilian upgrades of extra roll-over protection, vibration and acoustic matting and wax injection. The seller's account is that only a small number of the type were supplied, and that this was the only one then available — consistent with a specialised variant of a general-purpose fleet.
No production figure or unit allocation is published in the sources consulted. The base Wolf order of January 1996 covered around 8,000 vehicles in TUL and TUM forms.
