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Description: | London General Omnibus Company began employing women as conductors in 1916. Women had to be over 5 feet (1.52m) tall and between 21 and 35 years old.
Once accepted, the recruits had to be trained and put to work as quickly as possible. They were sent to the Milman's Street training school in Chelsea for two weeks.
This photo shows a group of women recruits outside being shown how to operate a Bell Punch ticket machine. One woman is working the machine while an instructor assists.
In the background are a group of conductors in uniforms. To the right, the back of a B-type bus can be seen. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 1916 - 1919 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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