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Women may drive buses
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• A top union boss has stepped into a "woman driver" strike row at Alexander's bus depot in Dundee. After talks with management executives, he said: "We cannot object to the woman's employment as a, driver."
But the particular service which Mrs. Pamela Scott is due to operate will now be offered to other drivers. Said Mr. Alex Gilroy, chief bus officer of the TGWU: "This job, although it is a new service, should have been advertised on the depot rota. Senior drivers should have had the chance to apply for it first."
Mr. Gilroy stressed that the union had no objection to Mrs. Scott driving so long as seniority was observed. He added: "If the men strike we will appeal to them to go back to work."
The strike threat came last week when Mrs. Scott, 33, was chosen to drive the new service from Dundee to Leuchars airstrip. But Mr. George Burness, chief inspector and acting supervisor at the depot, announced on May 30: "She will definitely start on Monday."
Glasgow Corporation will soon have more than 500 front-loading buses suitable for conversion to single-manning and the Prices and Incomes Board suggests that more women should be employed . . . even as drivers.
Transport manager, Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpaynes, said: "There is nothing to stop women driving single-manned buses. The modern bus is as easily handled by a woman as a man."