Don Tibbey was Paymaster for the Trucial Oman Scouts at the HQ in Sharjah, and a larger than life character. On pay days, he did the rounds of the various TOS stations around the Trucial States with a tin trunk filled with coins, with an assistant. Both carried sidearms in case someone got greedy. He would be transported by the RAF in a Twin Pioneer to more distant places such as Mirfa and Al Ayn/Bureimi.
All went smoothly until the TP was retired in favour of Andovers. The problem wasn't the new aircraft, but that the casual drive to the aircraft side in a Landrover, load the trunk under a net, jump in and off, was suddenly replaced by a mini-Lyneham system, ie report to a desk 45 minutes before departure, check in, wait patiently, be escorted to the aircraft, blah, blah.
The first time he was confronted with the new rules, the crunch came when Don, already fuming, was told that the tin trunk had to be taken away and loaded while he sat in the waiting room. "That money is my responsibility, and I am not letting it out of my sight". But he couldn't beat the system; "Regulations, Sir" said the officer called to deal with him. "Regulations, eh?" he said, and he and the assistant picked up the trunk, unlocked the lid, and tipped the many hundreds of coins and small notes on the floor. "Our Regulations say that if we hand over responsibility for cash, the recipient must count it. Better get started, we're leaving soon."