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"J.O.S. [Jamaica Omnibus Services] Engineering School re-opens: Training Officer, Ken R. Facey demonstrated the rocker gear assembly and its function to J.O.S. apprentices at the Tivoli Engineering Training School, opened on November 3."

"One of seventeen: Mavis Gibson, J.O.S. bus driver received a certificate and cheque from Dr. Kenneth Rattray, Solicitor General, for one year of accident-free driving at a Safe Driving Awards Ceremony at the J.O.S. offices recently. Sixteen other…

"A typical scene where school children gather around the entrance of a JOS bus."

"Jamaica Omnibus Services Limited new radio controlled heavy duty wrecker now doing duty in the Corporate Area is a gift from British Leyland Manufacturers for 25 years of association between the two companies. The wrecker reduces the company's…

"New directors visit J.O.S.: Led by Mr. A.Z. Preston, Chairman, several of the new Directors of the nationalized J.O.S. visited all the company's offices and depots on Thursday. The Directors were amused by this notice put up in the Bodyshop at the…

"Repaired block on a a JOS bus."

"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…

"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…

"NAVCO's [National Vehicle Corporation] employees seen in the process of assembling one of the buses used by the Jamaica Omnibus Service Company. NAVCO employs some 70 people, all Jamaicans. They were trained by a leading U.K. - based bus-building…

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