I thought we at Cottesmore were the only ones to have one of those Meteor snow melters, and yes, they did tie them to a Hippo tanker. Most onlookers used to watch from a safe distance. Funnily enough, I was at the Avalon air show at Geelong in Victoria, Australia in February last year, and they displayed a Meteor 8, and my son [the real Sam!] commented on the strange noise the engines made. It was music to my ears I can tell you!
They also had snow-ploughs on those fuel tankers; specialising in the removal of runway and taxi lights!
As mentioned earlier, the first trials Sqn of the Victor B2 was at Cottesmore. Four aircraft under a very friendly Sqn Ldr who's name I've sadly forgotten. They certainly flew a lot.
I loved the surreal night landings, often of four aircraft, and especially in the rain. The Victor seemed bigger, and with all the orange pan lighting and aircraft lights reflecting off the wet concrete, I only wish I'd had a camera. Illegal of course! Once the first one was down and obligingly dropped the chute, we had to move it and ourselves off the runway smartly because we could see the lights of the next one. It simply wouldn't have been good enough for an aircraft to have to go around because we hadn't got the runway clear, though I can admit now there were times when I simply hitched the hot shackle to the back of the Landrover in order to do so! Needs must.
If you ever wanted to increase your vocabulary, you could go and watch the lineys reload those 'chutes, and listen to the curses bestowed on whoever designed the housing. Apparently it required a wrist action with a 90 degree turn to do it! Not even armourers had that!