Some ideas are more practical than others.
While hovercraft were gaining converts and applications, the Miller bridge would cause only a small blip on the radar of military innovations.

Developed by an Australian officer, it offered a low-cost, easy-to-construct (and just as rapid to dismantle) method of crossing river and ravine.

The cable bridge, based on two steel wires less than an inch thick, could replace the obiquitous 80-tonne Bailey bridge . . . it was hoped.
A Land Rover, fitted in five minutes with flanged hubs designed to clip onto the cables, was wheeled out and sent on its way to the far bank.

In Cyprus, British soldiers were patrolling the narrow and vicious noman's land running through Nicosia. With work on the island at a standstill, crowds gathered on any pretext, and movement from one side of the line attracted an immediate reaction on the other.

British squaddies (by 1960 there were up tp 17,000 of them stationed on the island) were holding the truce with a combination of tact and tactics.

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