MESSAGE FROM ANGIE (LANDLADY) YOU SUPPED 66 GALLONS OF LARGER 40 GALLONS OF BEER AND 130 BOTTELS ? THE SUM RAISED FROM VOLVO AND THE BISCUITS WENT TOWARDS A DRINK FOR THE BAR STAFF AND THE REST TO (((((HELP THE OUR HEROS ))) OWER PUBS CHARITY …MANY MANY THANKS STUART JACK STUART AND ANGIE …
That sounds like a good night to me Stuart and i am glad Angie enjoyed it. Catch you later.(Alan) 
OK. here goes!! once again thanks for your kind words Jack.
I have (somehow 
)managed to transfer a few of my photo’s onto this site, so here are just a TEASER!!
Stuart S.
Hope you like them, more later.
It’s good to know that you all had a great night 
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I have not seen him for over twenty five years but is the guy on the right on the last photo Tapper Jack 
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Your getting good at this photography lark Stuart, these pics are very good, I notice Frank’s getting stuck into his diet, but seriously the pictures are very good.
I think we can appoint you our official photographer for the A One drivers association, along with being the chief cook and bottle washer, and researcher. 
:-Jack
Hi Jack Graham. I was looking at a link by depablo about Chapmans freight and did anybody remember them and what had happened to them. As i read the comments about Chapmans i realised that they were all wrong. As i was just about to try and put them right i noticed that you had already done so, and i might add in great detail. Good for you Jack because i only worked there for a short time,and no way could i have given them that much information. Maybe they will look at this site now to catch up with everybody. thats all for now Jack so take care. Regards. (Alan)
Erm, are they the right photos? I’m sure there weren’t so many bald and grey blokes on a-one!
Alan Bennett:
Hi Jack Graham. I was looking at a link by depablo about Chapmans freight and did anybody remember them and what had happened to them. As i read the comments about Chapmans i realised that they were all wrong. As i was just about to try and put them right i noticed that you had already done so, and i might add in great detail. Good for you Jack because i only worked there for a short time,and no way could i have given them that much information. Maybe they will look at this site now to catch up with everybody. thats all for now Jack so take care. Regards. (Alan)
Thanks Alan, it was a long time ago, I came out of the army in 1960, I was working at Charles Sydney’s just off Manchester Road where the old bus garages were where Coronation cars are now, they were about to close down, and Fielders lorries came down the street loaded up to the hilt with wool past our shop, that’s when I decided to go on the road in 1962/3, Harold Priest was the transport Manager who set me on, and it all started from there, although the job then was a bit hard as you know, if we fell out with them we went down the road and got another job from anywhere, and then went back, but in all I was at Fielders until he sold out to Chapman, who eventually sold out to JMR, it’s a bit hard to remember the exact dates, but it’s a long time to be with the same guys, in fact it’s a whole working lifetime, and I can remember you working there all that time ago, didn’t you go to Leathers from there, I remember they were paying double the money we got on the wool, but it was a dodgy job with all that acid.
And I’m convinced that’s why the lads from A One were as Maureen said like a family, and still are, because there’s no doubt about it, they were and still are a good set of guys to be with and work with, and it showed last Sat night nothing has changed, so here’s to the next time, just keep in touch and we’ll see you all soon. :-Jack
denisglover:
this message is for (newmercman) where did u get your info from u are talking a load of coblers when we was at the glasshouse the only time we had beans u donkey was at breakfast time on sunday morn any other time normal a one men was on the lash and as for anyone who u say caused trouble is coblers there was never any trouble at a wedding u want to get it rite before u say crap like that pls reply.
Haven’t checked this out for a while so I started at the beginning, in answer to your question, I got my information from the sparkly blue eyes I have, I saw many drivers, not just A-One, eating in their cabs in Arluno, the beans reference may have been flippant, but they were eating out of tins all the same, why anyone would do that in Italy is beyond me, the food was cheap and very good and having spent the night in the Glasshouse prior to the punch up I know there were A-one lorries in the car park, so assuming there’s no smoke without fire…
I never said that they were on crap money, which has also been mentioned, just that I had a better motor and earned more money, at the time I had a very good job, sorry about that I used to bump into A-One lads quite often and they were a decent bunch, as I said, in fact one of them showed me the way down through Reims/Chaumont/St Dizier/Dijon IIRC
Now I’ve answered your questions, so will you answer one of mine please?
Why are you wearing your wife’s knickers
There`s a great A ONE picture on Bubblemanns scrapbook on page 156 or 157 check it out
ramone:
There`s a great A ONE picture on Bubblemanns scrapbook on page 156 or 157 check it out
I just looked at this picture on bubblemans scrapbook and i dont remember all those aec’s it must have been before 1967.?
this is for newmercman, wat is this crap ur givin it about the dream team at arluno it is a load of cobblers
this for mr blanchard down under old cobberlampa said u was down under
denisglover:
this is for newmercman, wat is this crap ur givin it about the dream team at arluno it is a load of cobblers
I wasn’t there Denis, but when I was told it was some of your lads I believed it as they were there the night before, it’s no big deal anyway, plenty of Brits had punch ups in Italy, usually with each other
I could never get my head around cooking in the cab in Italy either, as you know the food was good and cheap, although if you fancied a full English then the only way to do that was in the cab, you can see the patrone’s point about it though, he provided a lorry park so that drivers would spend there money at his place, seeing groups of Brits eating in their cabs is taking the ■■■■ really, A One were not the only ones that did that, but as this is an A One thread and it was A One that the bloke was talking about as they were doing it on that specific day I thought I’d mention it, but it could easily have been EM Rogers or Hercocks or even some 01er dripping in Ratners gold, pumping diesel out of their belly tank while the bacon sizzled away
Now, what about those knickers
Like dennis said, some people lisen to any thing and every thing and think they have the full facts
spread manure on the garden not on this forum.
if anyone has the full facts about Arluno it will be probably be DENNIS by the way enjoy your trip
contact you later
thanks to both Stuarts and Jack for the evening not forgetting the landlady and bar staff for making it possible
certainly looking forward to the next one
Old Hoborn:
Like dennis said, some people lisen to any thing and every thing and think they have the full facts
spread manure on the garden not on this forum.
if anyone has the full facts about Arluno it will be probably be DENNIS by the way enjoy your trip
contact you later
thanks to both Stuarts and Jack for the evening not forgetting the landlady and bar staff for making it possible
certainly looking forward to the next one
I never said it was a fact, I wasn’t there when the punch up happened, as I said, but I wasn’t the only one who mentioned it, you’re trying to paint a very pretty picture here, are you saying that A One drivers never got ■■■■■■ up, never had a punch up, never cooked in their cabs? Sure, A One may have been a good job, with a good bunch of lads, but they weren’t issued a halo as company uniform
I NO NO MORE
To Whom it May Concern. All this talk about trouble between a one drivers at various locations in europe may or may not be true. I spent the best part of thirty years working for this company and never heard about any drivers fighting between themselves,either in europe or the uk. However that does not mean it didnt happen,and if it did happen then it happened in the past. AND THAT IS WHERE IT SHOULD STAY. So please no more talk of trouble. Just one more note. All the uk company’s that i came across and met up with and there are to many to mention all the drivers got along fine. So lets just remember the happy time’s we all had and i mean ALL european drivers. Regards. (Alan).
Alan Bennett:
To Whom it May Concern. All this talk about trouble between a one drivers at various locations in europe may or may not be true. I spent the best part of thirty years working for this company and never heard about any drivers fighting between themselves,either in europe or the uk. However that does not mean it didnt happen,and if it did happen then it happened in the past. AND THAT IS WHERE IT SHOULD STAY. So please no more talk of trouble. Just one more note. All the uk company’s that i came across and met up with and there are to many to mention all the drivers got along fine. So lets just remember the happy time’s we all had and i mean ALL european drivers. Regards. (Alan).
Hullo Alan,
Well said mate, you have the right attitude, it’s all done and passed now so lets forget any moments of indiscretion. And anyway most of it is only rumor, as that other post said " I was’nt actually there" , completely sums it up eh? My memory of you was the night that we spent on a New Years Night ( Silvesta ) in the Hotel Wien. I also heard later that you were in my lads mob 4/7th DG. I was going to look in last week but I am in Brasil for the Winter
Cheers, Archie.
There appears to be a wind up from somewhere and some people have bitten the bullet, in all my years at A One, and the years even before A One at the company they bought out dating from 1963, I never saw anyone, drivers or anyone fighting or doing any more than a disagreement, I did see many of us having a good laugh over a lot of beers, even in the days of roping and sheeting when things could have got out of hand, even when we slept in our cabs down Back church Lane in London, we did spend a lot of time helping each other to load or even tip on the docks, all the times we spent in the Dog and Truck in Back-church Lane, and the Watermans pub on the river embankment down Millwall, where all the gangsters for London were,where everyone had to watch there backs and watch your mates backs, that’s how it was and it carried on all through my driving life, there may have been someone we didn’t like, but it never got so bad that we ended up fighting, and this includes “Arluno”, we spent many good nights there no matter what company or country we came from, I’d never heard of any fighting between A One drivers at Arluno until it came up on this thread, and if there was any bother I reckon we would have known ourselves.
The times we live in today are different from then, we didn’t have the regulations and the ministry down our necks all the time, like they do now, and any rumors that are started are from people who just dont know enough and end up believing others who have only heard a story, and then exaggerate and get it all distorted, the only thing this someone has got right is yes we did often eat in our cabs, but many of us also went into the restaurant to eat, and so did many more from other countries, but who cares, this was many years ago and now most of us have retired, and the people who know just how it was at A One were there last sat night, there was about 45/50 drivers there and not a bad word between anyone, just plenty of beer and a good laugh, life’s too short so were doing it again next year, just to have a laugh and a few beers.:-Jack