Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
Ahh the ditches!! I was told that the when they were building the Mt Pleasant - Stanley post-war they contractor asked for rainfall figures so they could calculate run-off and so size the ditches correctly... they were given ANNUAL figures but had it in their minds that the FI was a very wet place (which it actually isn't) and thought they were MONTHLY figures
hence ditches that would stop a Russian Armoured Division...........
HH
I was told it was a metric/imperial error:
They thought in inches, but were told figures in millimetres!
Either Or, still a factor of 12 or possibly even 25 out!