The fellow at Teeside was Rip Pearson as I recall.....who always seemed to have the last flight of the day.
Yes....the genius of Lawrence!
I can recall cheating on the sums and being able to offer two passengers. If we had done it the same way the GOM operators did it...we would have loaded up all the seats and gone full fuel....with the limiting factor being the ability to get the aircraft airborne with no consideration of maintaining flight on one engine.
Um is right.....I would have loved to have flown the Wessex but it was not to be.