OFF-DUTY CONDUCTRESS' SIGNAL WAS LEGAL
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I F an off-duty conductress in uniform rings the bell on a colleague's bus, is she doing so as a passenger or as a conductress? Bootle magistrates were asked to decide this, last week, when a conductress was summoned for illegally signalling a bus to start when she was a passenger.
Supt. Gibbison claimed that the conductress was not entitled to start • the vehicle while her colleague was collecting fares upstairs. Told that she was obeying a corporation instruction, he said the instructions were vague, and as a defence were not worth the paper they were written on.
The magistrates dismissed the case, but pointed out that it could have wide repercussions. At this, Supt. Gibbison said the conductress, if she were on duty, and not a passenger, would he summoned for failing to take reasonable care for the safety of passengers.