At some stage in 1961 we obtained a brand new spare MTS vehicle. As it approached the camp on the road that led from the Flughafen Strasse with Bill Coupland or Spud Murphin at the wheel it went into the ditch with considerable collateral damage to the once smooth cabin sides.

I was unaware of this until the next morning when arriving for work I was told by Bill Coupland that I was in deep trouble for having caused the accident by driving too fast down the road in my Borgward. Apart from not even remembering seeing the vehicle the night before I am sure that I would have slowed to go past such a big truck coming in the opposite direction on such a narrow road. How a one ton car could make a 9 ton truck go into a ditch on the opposite side of the road was not explained which is probably why I never heard any more about it from antone in authority, Spud Murphin did not go overboard to back up Bill Coupland's assertions either. I think that this was just another example of the antipathy that existed between Bill and me. It was a one-way thing and I never found out what it was that set him against me.