LONDON'S "CLIPPIES"

Evening Star, Issue 25715, 12 February 1946, Page 7

LONDON'S "CLIPPIES"

VANISHING GIRL CONDUCTOR (From Our Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) ' LONDON, January 31. Very few girl bus conductors are now left inside the London area. Naturally the travelling public is drawing comparisons between the vanishing clippies the men conductors who are returning to their old job. An amusing conflict of opinion results. Some people legret the disappearance of the girls, and contend that they were more considerate and less talkative than the average man conductor. Others plump for the masculine variety on precisely the same grounds. Roughly, one would Bay that the majority of younger women prefer the men, and most of the younger men like the girls better. Which works out on a pure sex question. From a 6cenic point of view undoubtedly, averaging it out, the cljppies were more attractive. A fair proportion of them, too, belonged to a more high-brow order, with a better accent, than the average man conductor. Yet the returning ex-service conductor is certainly a good fellow, pleased to be back, and anxious to please. Least satisfactory of all were those women conductors who had been " directed " to their jobs, and hated it. They were the ladies who pressed the bell before everybody was either on or off.