This memory comes from 47 GHQ Survey Squadron RE circa 1962

47 Squadron was a small unit based at Episkopi in Cyprus, I was a member of the field survey/library section. Two squadron members had dual roles, RB was SQMS and i/c field survey, PS was SSM and i/c air survey.

The NCO i/c field survey MV was a rally enthusiast who was forever going on about the virtues of the Jaguar E Type anf the Ford Anglia (providing that there was a bag of sand in the boot to keep the back end stable). His nickname by virtue of exploits in the jungles of Borneo was "twin bren guns slung low", he regaled section members with the peculiarities of rallying  including "tulips". The unit vehicle was a Mk 1 Landrover reckoned by some to be on its last legs and MV, wishing to hasten the writing off of the vehicle persuaded the powers that be that we should enter the twenty four hour Rally of Cyprus in the Landrover. The crew was MV as driver, PS as co-driver,  RB and myself as navigators. The navigators were sat in the back with a drawing board between us, far from comfortable. We did well for the first stages but when we came to a tulip section were under a great disadvantage, the distances were given to 0.1miles and the Landrover milometer only read to the nearest mile.Then came the hairy bit through the Troodos mountains on narrow winding roads. I well recall  the sickening feeling when travelling down the "Seven Sisters" (a series of hairpin bends) in the dark how RB & myself were flung from side to side in the back, how we were not sick I shall never know.

When the rally was completed we ended up as winners of the military section and the Landrover never ran better, far from wrecking it it had a new lease of life.