It might be worth mentioning the elitist / arrogance culture was around in Gnat days.
They had a habit of arriving at Valley with a collection of u/s wheels / brakes / maxarets and some hyd components, depleting our stock, and leaving us to do the rectification work to recover the stock. The RAF, as we know, didn't pay overtime.
Then came the "request " one year for bodies to help with the Winter servicing programme. There was a notable lack of volunteers at Valley, hence some of us were simply dispatched in the end. On arrival at sunny Kemble, we went into the Reds crewroom....and were immediately evicted, being told in no uncertain terms, it was "Reds only "!..we were directed to 4Sqdn's instead.
They showed no interest in the work we were doing, ostensibly on their behalf, and no hospitality was offered. Then, suddenly, after about 3 weeks, we were deemed surplus to requirement one day and pointed in the direction of Valley....eventually, a brief letter of token "thanks " found its way to Valley and our boss was apologetic, and unimpressed, having been made aware of what had transpired.
Beagle may wish to muse as to why his "feral Reds haters " came about.
Cheltenham station was nice though, hanging floral baskets being not so prominent at Holyhead