Follow-Me vehicles
 

Couldn't find much on "follow-me" vehicles so here is a new thread.
No idea of when or where. The photo is an RCAF official photo.

http://www.servicepub.com/images/dsc04049.jpg

Interesting photo. The truck looks like it is set up as a mobile ATC shack, or possibly the OSCAR vehicle. Assuming it has specialized kit for those jobs, it seems odd that it would be used as a follow mevehicle. I think of the follow me as one of the smaller, lighter, cheaper vehicles on an airport, usually big enough for stability and to hold the signage (and the operator hopes for shelter from the weather) fast enough to get into place to meet the airplane and stay ahead of it while the airplane taxis but otherwise as low a capability as possible.

follow me vehicle
 

Looks like a vintage Pope-mobile

Mike in Windsor

On further inspection...
 

This one looks like it is parked in a standard type wartime hangar on an airbase in Ontario (based on the license plate that seems to match the pattern issued to the forces from 1943 to about 1954). The wingtip behind the truck is too high to be an Anson or Crane, seems to be on a tailwheeled aircraft and is shoulder to high mounted which suggests a Mosquito or larger bomber. It also looks like the hangar has been set up for either instruction or display based on the cards standing on the tables. The baloons suggest "special" event of some sort. I don't recognize the make or year of the truck, my ignorance is showing.

Bow ties
 

Grant..
I would suggest chevvy from the bow ties on the hub caps..
Recognize the fire extinguisher..???