I was really impressed when I entered the Vanguard flight deck at Brooklands. The centre console sprouts no less than twelve big levers! I was a tad disappointed to learn from the ex-guardsvan driver who was acting as guide that 4 are power levers for the P1, 4 are power levers for the P2, and the middle 4 are fuel cocks!
There were actually 16 levers at the front of the centre console - besides the two sets of throttles there were the HP cocks, which also acted as fuel trimmers and feathering levers - and four 'start levers'. These latter restricted fuel flow to the engines during start until they had achieved 'low ground idle' RPMs, after which they were selected to 'RUN' to feed a gradually increasing supply to the Tynes until they reached 'ground idle' RPMs.