Danny42C
I'm particularly interested in the price you quote for petrol coupons (Dm 2.50 for 10 litres) - but of course it may have been different in '60 to'62 - and the fact that you were still getting around Dm 12:£1.
I may have been a little too generous with the 1972 BFG petrol coupon price. Having spoken to a friend who was in the Army in Germany in the early seventies he thinks my quote of DM 2.50 = 10 litres coupon is too low, but couldn't come up with an alternative. So treat my recollection with a pinch of salt until someone comes up with a better sourced figure.
Now in our time everybody got a free monthly ration of coupons to start you off. Was it still so with you (and can you remember how many ?).
No free coupons in my days there, they had to be purchased.
As regards my DM - £ Sterling exchange rate a better figure is DM 9.00 = £1 Sterling for 1972. When I left Germany in 1975 it was down to about DM 5.50 = £1 Sterling.