Brian Butterworth and an RAF Policeman viewing Brian's new Hillman Minx outside the Main Guardroom after he had rolled it the night before - Dec1959.   Brian relates the following tale: "Just before Christmas 1959 we all decided to go to Wilhelmshaven.   I took the lead in the new car, (the first new car I'd ever had), Chris Stone followed in the front seat of Mick Ryan's Volkswagon, with the Sqn Cdr Des White behind Mick and Chris.   Not far from Jever we hit black ice on a right angle bend.   I hit the bank and somersaulted over a ditch and into a field.   My abiding memory is of Jeremy Hall who was sitting next to me on the front bench-style seat, leaning over and saying "Ignition off".   We were briefly upside-down at the time.   No-one was hurt except that when Mick Ryan came to a halt Chris Stone, who was worried by our gyrating headlights, leapt out and ran towards us in the field, not realising that there was a substantial ditch between us and him.   He nearly broke his ankle as he ran full-pelt in the dark into the deep ditch.   Des White was very helpful back at my place.   He made me hide in the coal bunker at the bottom of the garden when the police came round that night." Chris Stone recalls the event as follows:   "My last recollection of it was late in the evening lying on its left side in a snow covered back yard of some unsuspecting German's house, and thankfully voices coming from within the car.   I particularly remember Brian's main concern, after I helped him climb out of the wreck, was the welfare of his rugby file which I believe was in the boot!   I told Mick that it was him in his VW following Brian that evening, and I seem to recall that Timber Woods was also in the back with Des White.   We were heading for that bar in Mariensiel at the time - all pissed, of course, and hence the need later to keep Brian out of the MPs' sights."   (Thanks to Brian Butterworth.)