Southampton did not have a car loader so the two aircraft were positioned nose to nose and the car transferred.
Now that must have been an interesting sight: two Carvairs positioned nose to nose and a car driving from one into the other!
Obviously some technical problems were handled in creative ways which would be not be acceptable now. One of the older ops officers in the handling company I worked for, was full of stories from the old days. One of them was about a Carvair with a non-functioning starter motor in one of the engines. As this defect could not be repaired at Rotterdam (no spare parts, no licensed mechanic), the captain decided to take-off on three engines, windmill the engine into action, landed back, shut down the three good engines and have the pax boarded quickly with the one faulty engine running, and took off again. Problem solved, everybody happy.
Tillerman.
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