Beagle,
Contractors made a nice little earner thanks to their 36/39.37 conversion ratio....allegedly!
Not too sure about that! I was told when I arrived in 1972 that the contractor got 25 years in the nick for deliberate fraud!
Laarbruch, like all the 'Clutch' stations, was built by the Germans as reparation for their actions during WW2. It cost the Brits (or NATO) nothing. The German government was, therefore, sorely embarrassed by the contractor's actions - hence his stiff sentence.
The ring road had to be a one way system because he'd even scrimped on tarmac!
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