In the late 60s I was working in the supply squadron at RAF Fairford when it was operating two aircraft types Hercules and Concorde! One day one of our SNCOs came across a box that had just been delivered which was, unusually, covered in labels. Further examination revealed that it was a piece of test equipment which was scaled for use by every Hercules operating base and had, according to the labels, indeed been to every Hercules unit at least once, including overseas bases such as Changi and Akrotiri. Trying to understand what was going on we discovered that the culprit was the RAF’s supply central computer which as soon as a unit posted receipt of the item sent an issue order to despatch it to another location before it was possible to issue it internally to the user. As a result, this piece of test equipment had been in perpetual transit for months possibly years and had not been for a sharp eyed SNCO might have continued to travel the world for many more years.