We had a Comms flight at Honington in the early sixties run by am aged Warrant Officer Pilot. It was mainly for taking crews to various places to pick up or drop off Victor and Valiant crews. It was dual controlled do he would always let me fly either there or back so he could put his feet up and smoke his pipe.
3 Group at Honington had one to carry the AOC or his staff around. On AOC's Inspection the AVM used to be driven in his Jaguar Mk7 from his office to his aircraft and as this aircraft was doing the necessary to get to Honington the AOC's driver would be hurling through the Suffolk countryside so as to get to Honington to meet him as his Anson arrived. Our Anson was eventually commandeered by 3 Group to form the 3 Group communications flight. After that we had to drive across the UK to position aircraft.
The Anson didn't seem to go all that well on one engine. The safety height was somewhere around 2,500 ft. IIRC and the Welsh and Scottish hills bore mute testimony to this fact. However, they had their uses; as a high proportion of the passengers were senior officers they used to clear out the bottlenecks in the promotion ladder.