Troop transports and Teachers
Chugalug,
I think, perhaps, that in those days, there were far fewer "short-haul" airlifts, and so they could be tailored more closely to the customers' requirements. And of course they were far easier to organise !
Teachers were always over-represented in the Territorial and Auxiliary forces. Because, when their little dears vanished at the end of summer term then, they had no intention whatever of seeing them again before they returned in September.
They therefore had eight blissful weeks ahead of them. Allowing two weeks for the family holiday, there was still six weeks to kill. Many of them would be ex-service, two weeks on full Service pay and allowances in a world already familiar to them was no great hardship. (No, I was never one of them !)
Cheers, Danny.