Story: Coaches and long-distance buses

Bus driver

Bus driver

Driver Joan Hamilton poses beside her tourist bus at Skippers Saddle, north of Queenstown, in the early 1960s. Women began driving long-distance buses in the 1930s, but some met with hostility from male drivers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Photograph by Gladys M. Goodall

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Jane Tolerton, 'Coaches and long-distance buses - Long-distance buses: 1940s onwards', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/20940/bus-driver (accessed 28 April 2024)

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 11 Mar 2010