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MAC 40612
Did you ever cross paths with 'Throttles Norton' in Engineering? So called as back in the day ground engineers were allowed to taxi the aircraft and he [allegedly] regularly brought the Vanguards back to the engineering base from the cargo area, without the use of a ground tug...hence his nickname
I know BA engineers were allowed to taxy aircraft at Glasgow back in the '70s; I 'talked' to several of them from the tower when they were doing engine runs in the early hours of the morning going to/from the stand to the attenuators and back; that was with Tridents.