my father who has past away some years ago now, told me of one of his exploits while serving in the British army during the second world war, he was in signals and had to serve in India due to his mother being German by birth, he was in a camp that was supposed to have a compliment of 120 officers but for the majority of his service had less than 60, of course they conveniently forgot to mention this fact when it came to supplies allocation, specifically alcohol, American bases were dry whilst the British bases were not, on a particularly rowdy night returning from Jassore ( sorry to any Indians if i have spelt this wrong ) my father who was the designated and shall we say not particularly diligent or sober driver of a, in his words beautiful wooden army station wagon managed to drive straight off the edge of a army pontoon bridge as they crossed a river, all amazingly considering their condition got out ok and had a rather damp walk back the rest of the way to camp, shortly after however news came of a camp audit that was to be performed, what to do about an entire woody station wagon missing became a pressing matter, the plan it seemed and spoiler alert a very successful plan it turned out, was to pay a visit to an American airbase a few miles from their camp, where a deal was struck with, as my father put it 'the most American quarter master including huge fat cigar he ever saw' where upon an agreed amount of cases of gin was to be relocated, and simatainiously a military woody station wagon was to be listed as beyond repair, my father was even more impressed when the station wagon arrived painted in British markings, an unexpected and most welcome bonus, so there it is guys if you fancy a huge project, somewhere in northern India there is perhaps a old station wagon at the bottom of a river waiting to be exhumed lol :).
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