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Ken Senar remembers Wilbur Wright in his e-mail 24Sep05:  The Signals Officer was 'Wilbur' Wright.   Wilbur moved into the Mess after a break-up of his marriage.  He was a keen model railway enthusiast and his room was in the right-hand ex-Luftwaffe block (looking from the Mess patio towards the tennis courts).  He also had an additional upstairs room at the far end of the block in which, on a number of 'Tables Fold Flat', he installed his train set.  At least that's how it started out.  In the event I spent many hours with him and, over a period of a year or so, the layout became so extensive, and the operating system (for we had opted to make at least some of it automatic) so complex that it was included in the Saturday morning CO's inspection schedule whenever the Officers Mess was listed for attention.  Eventually, when Wilbur was posted the whole was loaded into his car, with some being carried on the roof rack, for his journey back to the UK.  Feb54.   (Thanks to Tom Balfour.)
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