Interesting date on that Max Newman paper - 2nd September 1942. Newman started working at Bletchley Park on 31st August, where he was deeply involved in the decryption of the Lorenz cipher and the development of Colossus.
Raspbian used to have a hilarious implementation of memcmp that temporarily switched to big endian mode in a (probably misguided) attempt at speeding things up. Valgrind didn't like this very much: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322935
They have tunnels through a lot of the islands as well - mostly single track with passing places (looked pretty terrifying when I was there a couple of decades ago, though I was never the one driving).