Superb genre British science fiction. The author was an engineer, or possibly an industrial chemist ( I remember a bio in New Worlds in the 60's, which is giving away my age!). How about the quartermaster (storeman) who is a convicted thief, and the leader of the UE squad carries a stock of official pardons to get him oput of gaol when he is busted. Dated, but still superb. No I will not sell my copy!

I loved the 'Unorthodox Engineers' stories when they originally appeared in the 'New Writings in SF' series in the early 70s, and I've been looking out for a copy of this collection ever since I learned of its existence.
I really enjoyed reading them again, although it's fairly easy to criticise the characterisation and some of the writing style - and some of the 'future' technology is a little archaic (video tapes?)...
Still worth a read if you like the idea of a bunch of (slightly) wacky engineers applying lateral thinking and improvisation to the problems presented by a series of increasingly bizarre planets (particularly the one where 1+1 = 1.58!) ( )