Sounds like a typical T F and G M stunt! I remember some of the tales from Changi, including his (and yours!?) 'dodgem' parking in Singapore
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If you are G---- M----- , I lived next door to you for a while in Suicide Village. We were also on 24 Hastings in the mid 60s.
IIRC the above-mentioned Loadie left the trucking business and eventually made it big time in the TV world - well, he appeared in a documentary when he was a winch dangler at Valley!