Duty Carried Out.
I have paid a brief visit to my (nearly) neighbour (who I had been worried about because his house was for sale). Thankfully, he appears sound of mind and body. I have have secured an invitation to visit him and look at some of his papers.
He did tell me one brief bit of extra information, he was involved in the ferry runs from west to east Africa. Some of those aircraft continued on to India but he says he never saw a VV (although he did know what one was).
In fact, he also told me that he has already written memoirs but that are not easy to find. A quick Google has shown me that he is sufficiently famous to be on Wikipedia so I don't think I am breaking any confidences with this link:
Guy Buckingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I did know about the cars, that was the common interest that first got us talking.
Anyway, I will see what I can do to get memories from him to me and hence to here. I have already established that he is not a user of t' interweb.