Kōrero: 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
Reference: PAColl-7756-1-12-1029
Photograph by Gladys M. Goodall

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jane Tolerton, 'Coaches and long-distance buses - Long-distance buses: 1940s onwards', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20940/bus-driver (accessed 10 May 2024)

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010