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Old 31st Dec 2023, 12:44
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Originally Posted by Ninthace
I was in a bank in Surrey with a colleague, both of us wearing RAF woolly pullies. A customer asked my friend if he was with the RAC as he had a car problem. Even the uniform is not enough ID.
The RAF trialled black cabs as transport at Upavon, they had the yellow stripe down the side with Royal Air Force emblazoned on it and an MT driver in uniform…. When doing pickups it still didn’t stop punters jumping in and saying take me to XYZ and they still argued when asked to get out as it was a military vehicle.
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