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