Originally Posted by
langleybaston
PS I think Hastings were also involved but they left no memory.
Perhaps not, but they too shared in the Berlin Airlift (coal was being excavated from their innards on Major Servicings long after) and they were the mainstay of the RAF MRT fleet throughout their service life. Like the Beverley they supported the repelling of Indonesian incursions in Borneo during Confrontation. Ungainly looking on the ground, it was tail wheeled at the Army's insistence in order to hang underslung loads between the mainwheels (mercifully a short-lived requirement) but once airborne and tidied up they could outperform most of their contemporary competition in payload and range.
Cold War Top 10? More like the Corporation Dust-Cart, but the front line would have struggled without it.