camlobe,
In '56, as "Talkdown" on the old MPN-1 Radar, I regularly drove the 8-ton AEC "Matador" which carried the Lister generator set for the Radar truck, to which it was coupled and which it hauled round the airfield.
I had no instruction whatever in driving this vehicle, no HGV licence, so no endorsement on my RAF Driving Licence, (which would have been difficult in any case, as I didn't have one
). I had a civvie one, though, so I suppose that was all right so long as I wasn't on a public road. And
everybody in ATC drove our landrover with or without a RAF Licence. Life was simple in those times.
So they wouldn't let me take it on the road ? (Wouldn't be
too sure about
that either !)
Your SENGO sounds the "Right Stuff". Pity we didn't have more like him (bet he was an old Fitter 1 (E) or (A)).
Happy Days..Danny.