LTB may have women drivers after all
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• The Central London bus committee of the TGWU has accepted a resolution from the Southall garage branch accepting the principle of employing women as bus drivers for London Transport. This resolution will now be considered at the next delegate conference representing 30,000 London busmen which, I understand, will be held on November 19.
This surprising about-face by the Central committee, which has previously blocked several suggestions made by the London Transport Board that women drivers should be employed, suggests that the penny has suddenly dropped, and with LTB's switch to one-man buses now well under way, busmen have realized that clippies may soon be facing redundancy.
The resolution from Southall came after women members of the branch committee made this point, and the branch resolution -demanded", apparently, that women should be given an equal chance with men to become driver /conductors.
A spokesman for London Transport stated that the Board welcomed the move. The Board did not expect that many women would apply to become drivers, but those who did would certainly be given the necessary training.