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We finished it here. Let's move the circus to Mosul. The order was given at 4. December 1982 and to be executed early next morning.
I have been in Mosul a coble days before and "warned" the silo administration that we were underway and scheduled to arrive the 5.December. Just to be sure that we will not be stuck in paperwork, missing permission from the military presence at the Silos etc.
Now it was a pleasure for me to stay there in the middle of it all with my coffee cup in my right hand and left hand in pocket and see "Siloe Brackets Officers" function around me. The "machinery" was spinning; every man knew what he should do.
Not even Kurt could find something he could use as an excuse to shout at them. They all knew that when the camp was up in Mosul, it stood on chicken in curry and rest of the day off.
There was not much space to come around at in Mosul.
Another unit is unloaded and packed after our camp plan.
Released from the load and a check of the skid-units finally position up against the wall of the store building.
>>Are you satisfied Arzis? Have you sent a man into downtown Mosul in the hunt for chicken<<?
>>But I am satisfied Azis<<. A well paced and a proper function camp is up running at no time.
All sanitary installations are connected. There is running water up in the tanks, and your kitchen and shower is a function Azis. The only thing we can not offer to you is a washing machine and a tumble dryer.
>>O.K. then! Let's unpack the "chief's" office<<.
Television! Of course, what have you expected?
I can not say myself free to be a little proud of what we had become when we considered the catastrophic starting point in Hilla for more than a half year ago. And now we just had to repeat all working routine one more time.
As none of the Pakistanis had further ambitions to learn to fly after our experiment in Erbil, we were all more relaxed this time.
The only remarkable experience we had in Mosul came from the climate.
Over one night the temperature drops from plus to minus 15 degrees and stay there for two days. The emergency generator on the silo complex cracked everywhere than the frost plugs that would have saved it. It gave us two unpleasant nights we did not want.
Minus 15 degrees and snow on the ground.
At the 7th February 1983, my branch manager could write to the director for Grain Board of Iraq in Baghdad and ask for completion certificate for Hilla, Erbil and Mosul and ask for my permission to leave the country at 5th March 1983. Erection of the steel beams in Mosul was completed 24th January 1983. I could no longer hide how effective we had become; It was less than two month in Mosul.
My director wants me to dismantle the empty camp in Diwaniya during the last month of my contractual period in Iraq, and I left Kurt and Pakistani to disassemble the camp in Mosul.
Was Silo Brackets Offices a success? No shareholder in M&T Ltd has anything to blame me. If we used the consumption of working hours used, compared with the working hours estimated in the offer to Grain Board of Iraq, it was a used success.
In Hilla, we used 40,1 % of the direct working hour. 59,9 % of the value was profit to the company.
In Erbil, we used 23,5 % of the direct working hour. 76,5 % of the value was profit to the company.
In Mosul, we used 21,5 % of the direct working hour. 78,5 % of the value was profit to the company.
Of course, the company was not run a risk with a wildcard as me, as their contract with Grain Board of Iraq was less than 10 million DK, but those profit figures will never have been a reality without execution of my plane. That for sure.
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