COURTESY ON BUSES
STORY OF A PENNY FARE. “Fares, please!” And I open my bag and find I have only a £1 note, writes a Daily Express woman representative. The London General Omnibus Company conductors are famed for politeness. Their company is extravagantly polite. The conductor could not change my £1 note, and he courteously took my name and address. The writer says:—“The next day I received a neatly typewritten letter reminding me of the penny I owed the company and requesting that I remit the account to the head office. With the demand I found an addressed envelope stamped with a ltd stamp, in which I remitted the penny in settlement of the fare. “So, you see, I could not travel a penny fare for nothing, even though it cost the London General Omnibus Company at least 3d in stamps to collect it—and more if they sent me a receipt.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21851, 31 October 1932, Page 4
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151COURTESY ON BUSES Southland Times, Issue 21851, 31 October 1932, Page 4
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