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Description: | Newly qualified women conductors pose inside, around and on a motorbus. This photograph was taken during the First World War, probably at the London General Omnibus Company training school. These 89 women represent one week's output.
The women are wearing their new blue uniforms, and have each been issued with a Bell punch ticket machine and licence. They were known as 'clippies', because they clipped the tickets with their machines. The conductors would work on a weekly shift rota. The early shift began at 6am. All shifts lasted 10 hours, and the working week was six days. | 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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