Four English boys began their new career in adventurous style when they left the India Office in London to travel by car all the way to Calcutta take up positions in the Indian Civil Service. S. K. Brown (second from left) Assistant Under-Secretary for India shaking hands with the boys as they left London (left to right): A W Flack, T. N. Kaul, F. A. Sharpe and P. F. Adams loading their car with petrol before leaving London. 21 September 1937.