harrym (#11422),
..."(36 plugs per engine)"... The Aden service brat Geriaviator would've been in seventh heaven, for plug cleaning was his specialty there !
The Beverley seems to have been in the category of aircraft that grows on you after an unprepossessing first impression - looks like a big Miles "Aerovan". Never had anything to do with them, but we had a detachment of Belgian C-119 with us for a few weeks one summer at Leeming.
For some weird reason (EU regs?) butter in the NAAFI was cheaper than retail butter in Belgium: there were quite a number of "admin" trips back home during the detachment; well down on their oleos outbound, but coming back light.
And there was woe on the "patches", as the NAAFI was always running out of butter !
But taking your car with you trumps even my strategem of an air-transportable charpoy ! And you could stow two three-tonner MT brake drums more easily than in a Spitfire !
Danny.