The late RETDPI Senior ( A 39 Entry Halton Brat), reckoned that it was the introduction of Centralised Servicing in the early 50's (plus National Servicemen) that drove him to despair and out into civil life.
Incidentally he often reminded me that Cauis Petronius (Arbiter) committed suicide: "In order to avoid being assassinated".
There's humour in there , somewhere.