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Yarmouth busmen ban woman driver
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• After taking a special course to qualify as Great Yarmouth's first woman bus driver, Miss Brenda Armstrong, 30, last week relinquished her ambition, admitting defeat at the hands of her male colleagues, the municipal busmen who threatened to strike if she was allowed to exchange her conductress's platform for the steering wheel.
Mr. Stan Parker, TGWU district branch secretary, said that, although it would be "humiliating for a man to have a woman driver", the real reason for the objection was shortage of work.
Yarmouth transport committee chairman Mr. John Malley remarked that "we might not have gone to the trouble and expense of training her if we had known the reaction".
A spokesman for the transport department told CM on Monday that during the summer holiday season there was normally a shortage of drivers. For the time being Miss Armstrong would continue as a conductress, pending a review of the position.