MOTHER'S BUS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 10

MOTHER'S BUS

ad ' ' " 'SYDNEY, December 11. A motor-bus specially fitted to carry mothers with 'babies and prams has been put on the run between Geelong and Newtown, a residential suburb two miles and a half out of Geelong. It carries a young hostess, and makes four return trips a day. The idea was formulated by Mrs. E. Bender, co-proprietor with her husband (a war casualty) and her son of a fleet of 17 buses at Geelong. ■ The centre of a standard bus was cleared to'make room for prams, leaving only wall seats all around. Painters put nursery rhymes along the inside walls and a 7ft panel of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs across the back. The bus accommodates a dozen prams. To the normal fare of 3d a charge of 3d is, added for each baby-in-pram. Mrs. Bender said: r "The pram bus won't pay: It's just a' little i service I want to give." The idea is catching on. The Melbourne Tramways Board is launching a service of special, buses to Pert Melbourne, Kew, arid Preston suburbs, carrying only mothers, children, and folding pushcarts.