A very poignant but also interesting recollection martynw, thanks for sharing it with us.
..... indeed so - how sad that it still gets spoilt by the briefly-funny-but-no-longer bug (or whatever it is) which turns the name of a cross country vehicle whose initials are L R to "Trabant".
Oh Mods, can we please do something about it - in this sort of context it verges on the offensive.