JEVER STEAM LAUNDRY

     There appears to have been a founding Annual General Meeting although the files have no trace
of any minutes or a copy of the calling notice. However, from the correspondence that follows, it is
obvious that such an AGM did take place on Saturday 28th December 1957 at Dirty Dick's near
Liverpool Street Station, London.  If anyone has a copy of either the minutes or the calling notice,
I would be grateful if I could borrow it to make a copy for the web site.

This may be an early photograph of a meeting of the founders of the Jever Steam Laundry?
Does anyone know the names, place and date?
First Suggestions: L to R round the table: Unknown, Unknown, Curly Hirst, Unknown half hidden, Unknown, Hidden, Unknown face only, Unknown Hidden, Unknown moustache
Back down right side: Unknown Hidden, Dickie Barraclough head only, Unknown elbow on table, Clam Clayton-Jones, Des Browne with moustache, Ken Goodwin forward half hidden, Unknown moustache leaning back, Unknown, Unknown

LOCAL BRANCH OF JEVER STEAM LAUNDRY

SUGGESTED HEAD OFFICE OF JEVER STEAM LAUNDRY

Here is some of the correspondence from the year preceding Saturday 28th December 1957:

JEVER STEAM LAUNDRY - ANNUAL BOARD MEETING

I have the honour to be, Sir,                          


W T Harrington                                   

ROYAL AIR FORCE,                      
HOW ARE THE          JEVER,                        
MIGHTY FALLEN!           2nd T.A.F.,                   
B.A.O.R.   25.        

From:-  Fg. Off. G. V. Shipley, S.T.O.M.,Q.D.S.(EXP).
        Fg. Off. P.S. Summers, 2TAF A.M.C.C., QR2707A.

To:-    Sqn. Ldr. D.T. Adamson, P.A.I.
        Flt. Lt. K.J. Goodwin, A.F.C.

Date:-  5 December, 1957

Ref:-   SMUN/HN/1/AIR.


Sires,

     At an extraordinary* committee meeting of the Aylesbury and District sub-branch of the Jever
Steam Laundry, it was decided that both members would attend the meeting of the Board of Directors 
in the basement conference room of Filthy Richard's tavern on 28th inst. at 1900(Z).

     The committee of the A. and D. S. B. of the J.S.L. beg leave to direct the board's attention
to the following matter, which is locally considered to be of some urgency.  The above named 
sub-branch's activities in both the publicity and works development fields are handicapped to a 
great extent by a total lack of any up to date information on the standard laundry lay-out.  
It would therefore be appreciated if the firm's architects could prepare a blue-print of the basic 
works organisation.


* Too bloody right!

It is estimated that such a blue print would tend to increase the sub-branch's capabilities out 
of all proportion.

     As an addition to the agenda for the meeting of the board of directors and shareholders 
it is proposed that the following items be discussed:-

	A.   The affect on J.S.L. dividends of :-

		(i)   Watney's.
		(ii)  Curry.
		(iii) T.A.B.T.
		(iv)  Lea and Perrin's.

	B.   The possibility of locating a new crab-farm in the highly salubrious atmosphere 
	of the Buckinghamshire countryside, where the characteristic clashing of crabs'
	antennae can be heard echoing around the walls of the arse-hole of the Empire all day long.

	C.   What measures the Board considers necessary in view of the rumour that an un-named
	Communist-controlled newspaper is offering prizes in a competition "Do It Yourself" kits for 
	converting war surplus dinghy leak stoppers into variable thrust anti-squitter plugs.

     The Aylesbury and District Percentage fall out is progressing well, dependent 
as it is on beer consumption and relative humidity, both of which are, of course, in the region of 98%
being therefore in a state of near-saturation,




We have the honour to be, Sir,                          

Sires,                                                  

Your obedient servants                                  

G V SHIPLEY                                           
AYLESBURY AND DISTRICT SUB-BRANCH MANAGER            

P SUMMERS                                             
DEPUTY SUB-BRANCH MANNER AND PILES REPRESENTATIVE.    


Flat 1,                     
55 Pittville Lawn,        
Cheltenham,             
Glos.                 

5th December, 1957          
 	         	        

Dear Squadron Leader Adamson,

     Many thanks for your notice of the annual board meeting of the Jever Steam Laundry.

     I have bags of dirty washing I can always mop up some beer and down a cold plate and I haven't met 
any good sympathetic vibrations and fall-out since I left Jever  (well not much anyway!)   so I'll be 
there at 1900 hours sharp.

                                        Sincerely,

                                           Alan Lethbridge


						Headquarters
							43 Squadron,
								R.A.F. Leuchers,
									Fife.
									
							12th December 1957.
Dear President,

     Many thanks for your kind notification of the Annual General Meeting which this year is being 
held on 28th Dec at "Dirty Dicks".  I myself am very keen to attend this meeting because I have a 
certain amount to air, and I think it proper that I should give you and Mr Goodwin adequate warning 
of the points I shall raise.

1.  I have been most perturbed by the way in which the y-front is being ousted by Jock-Straps in 
this part of the country.

2.  Secondly I am worried by the fall off of fall out as a result of the wearing of kilts.
I suspect that the majority of Scottish fall out is either being deposited direct in the street or privately
washed off the legs.  This is obviously not good for business.

3.  I am drawing up plans of a sophisticated system for retrieving the tartar from the tartan.

4.  I hope to convince you both that in the future all water used at our laundries should
come from the lochs up here.  In particular I am most amazed by that which comes from the 
famous Bol Loch.

5.  Spending a certain amount of our wealth in publicising the quantities of "Brown Label"
Whisky which I find produces a very thick rich fall out - in fact second only to Jever Bier fall out.

6.  MOD. 584621 incorporates a rebore of the holes in the sieve which have tended to become 
blocked if this sort of fall out is handled ???????? untended urinals.  I intend to request 
that the MOD. be made a universal one.

7.  There seems to be quite a future in the laundering of bag-pipes!!

8.  Have either of you been lucky enough to have had connections with Haggis Fall Out?
  This is certainly extremely valuable and I feel sure it will supply the answer to 
the problem of manufacturing synthetic Teakan plastic which is vital in the modern treatment of black
eyes and black heads.

9.  Could you, Mr President, or Mr Goodwin nip over to the Congo and employ these two 6" 
men which we turned down on our last tour of Africa.  I find that there is a place for them 
in the delicate but vital task of removing bodies foreign from the sporran.

     These are the main points which I wish to discuss and I trust you will be 
interested in some samples and exhibits which I hope to bring.

     I am happy to report that the Scottish branch of the J.S.L. is slowly 
taking shape and will be a going concern in 1958.  Once again many thanks for your 
notification of the meeting,

							fall out,
							
								Mr Bodger.



A very merry Christmas and prosperous New Fall Out to all our brother laundries from the Guardbridge
Scottish Steam Laundry.