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JOS women drivers

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"Women of the fleet: a group of women drivers (and some male officials) of the Jamaica Omnibus Service Company who participated in the company's Safe Driving Award presentation at Curphey's Place on Sunday night. The function was also the occasion…

Safe Driving Awards Ceremony

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"Henry Beckford is seen receiving his cash award and medal for 15 years' safe driving with the JOS. The occasion was JOS fifteenth annual Safe Driving Awards ceremony Sunday night. Guest speaker Aston Preston, centre, Chairman of the Public…

JOS buses at Tivoli Gardens Depot

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"When is a "first bus" not a first bus? When it gets out from the depot too late to begin working at the "first bus" is scheduled to start. JOS spokesmen say that a new system of supervision at their depots is coming to grips with the problem and…

JOS bus engine

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A Jamaica Omnibus Services (JOS) bus being repaired.

Broken cylinder

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"Broken block: This is a broken cylinder block of a Gardener type engine. The break occurred as a result of water reaching into the cylinder through the air-clean, this de-compressing the chamber and causing the connecting rod to bend and hitting…

Leyland National bus

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"Latest shipment of Leyland National buses for the Jamaica Omnibus Service. Picture was taken at the Industrial Terrace deport of the JOS."

New Leyland National

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"One of seventeen new Leyland Nationals which have arrived from England in the past four weeks to join the Jamaica Omnibus Service's fleet, being unloaded from the M.V. Naturalist, at Western Terminals, Newport West, last week. A total of eight…

Type 'A' Olympic bus

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"The above 'A' type Olympic Bus, which first joined J.O.S. 15 years ago and has given excellent service, finally ended its career in the early hours of February 22. On that night A-38 ran into the back of an unlit parked trailer which ahs delivered…

Repaired block

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"Repaired block on a a JOS bus."