RAF Tai Mo Shan - Project Cabbage Leaf 1958. | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

RAF Tai Mo Shan - Project Cabbage Leaf 1958.

RAF Tai Mo Shan - Project Cabbage Leaf 1958.

The Tai Mo Shan Special 99AF18.  Left to right:- Jock Munroe - Cpl Jim Cook - "Meatloaf" Deegan - Cpl Eddie Edwards - "Chicko" cooks assistant.

Note the low clouds in the background.  

The girders and other steel work was transported to the site by two short wheel base Bedford tipper lorries, the only vehicles able to get up the mountain track without shunting round some of the very tight bends.  

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