BASIL
Your story reminds me of the 707 incident in the 1970's when a certain airline's flight training manager was taking off from Toronto and an aircraft taxied across the runway quite a long way further down. He realised he would be airborne before reaching it but applied more power, climbed over the offending aircraft and continued to London.
He was praised for avoiding the aircraft but was reprimanded for continuing to London having overboosted the JT3D's.With the RR Conway engines it would not have mattered as they had Ultra to limit the boost.