Source: File: lady tram conductor asks a passenger for his fare on a Southampton
tram in the summer of 1915.jpeg, [online] Available at: <http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/heritage/news/13770066.Answering_call_to_keep_city_moving_during_WWI/>
Accessed: 11 November 2015].
On a day when
11th of the 11th meant
No more than any
other day, a report
Told how women
tram conductors began
A start on the
London United Trams.
While happening
in the capital for first
Time on 10
November, such sights
Of women in
charge of these vehicles,
Had already occurred
in other counties.
Before in May
1915, female tram guards
Had already
stepped aboard in Salford -
With their prime
difficulties being turning
Trolley's pole, to
replace wheels on wires.
Working on the
London United Trams
In November,
women worked the Kingston
Route - tutored
by a male conductor, this
Experiment to be extended
to other routes.
As with
regulations that defined London's
Police, women had
to be 5ft 5 in., aged
25 to 35 and
passed medically fit for duty-
A six day week
would pay 29s 6d wages.
Previously a
debate in Hull said women
Would be paid
same rates as men - the city
Council in
opposition by labour members
Dissatisfaction
in tramway committees.
One opinion was lack
of efforts had been
Made, to find men
- a Dr Webster on the one
Hand had no
problem - to believe physical
Reasons should
bar women in certain work.
Amidst crowds,
the act of running down
And up stairs
summer and winter, would
Be taxing on
females - the fear was how
The women would
be held from marriage.
With this
occupation women would suffer
In morals and
mentally - womanly women
Were desired for
men to marry - the result
Leading to a halt
in population's growth.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915.
Women Tram Conductors. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 11
November. P.4. Col.5. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11975605/Daily-Telegraph-November-11-1915.html
[Accessed: 11 November 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 11 November 2015).
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