vanmen

What could occur in Wellingsford without it being known at once to vanmen and postmen and barbers and servants and masters and mistresses?

The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

Carters, too, and vanmen employed by coal-merchants, builders, and other tradesmen in the town, are comparatively well off with constant work at eighteen or twenty shillings a week.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

I shall never forget those great rough boxes made of foreign wood, nor the intense interest with which I watched them as they were carried in upon the backs of the stout railway vanmen and set carefully in the large back-room.

Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870

They shout, they curse, they put their hands to their mouths trumpet wise and bellow at each other, these cabbies, vanmen, busmen, all angry at the block in the narrow way.

The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867

But -- how am I going to get into a van here, and got out of it there, without the vanmen knowing? "

The Borough Treasurer 1899