It was in the middle of the black-out when a bus drew up to a kerb somewhere in London." Out of the darkness came the quavering voice of an old woman: "What are you?" From the rear of the bus came the cheery reply: "Bus conductor, aged forty-two, married. with two kids, going Blackfriars way. and if yer want two-penn’orth o’ dark, missus, 'op inside!"
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 6
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