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John Bollard and journalists

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"JOS Managing Director John Bollard (second left) explaining to Journalists some of the operations at the Tivoli Depot on Tuesday. The newsmen were taken on a tour of the depot shortly before the company announced a programme for improvement of the…

Jamaica Omnibus Services bus repair

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A Jamaica Omnibus Services employee in the process of washing a bus.

Jamaica Omnibus Services bus

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A number 94 Jamaica Omnibus Services (JOS) bus on its route.

Horace Clarke and conductress

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"Transport Minister Horace Clarke Clarke paying his fare to conductress Verona Brown before beginning the tour of the new 38 bus route to Havendale and Meadowbrook yesterday."

Four-vehicle crash

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"Crunch: Two of the buses involved in the four-vehicle smash up yesterday on Half way Tree Road. "

Fire extinguisher on JOS bus

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"The fire extinguisher [arrow] were disappearing too fast from the buses so JOS electrician designed a system which allowed the driver to push a button near his seat and discharge extinguisher on the turbine charger, at the rear of the Nationals."

Death scene: Kingston - Spanish town

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"Death scene: One of the victims who died yesterday morning along the Kingston-Spanish Town Highway in an accident involving two minibuses and a Leyland bus. On the ground is Winston Robinson, 35 year old porter of Linstead Hospital. In the…

Danger zone

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"Danger zone: This is one danger zone on Mountain View Avenue where four big holes span the road presenting a hazard even to vehicles as big as this JOB bus."

Damaged JOS bus

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"A portion of one of the damaged buses."

Crankshafts

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"Ken Facey, J.O.S. Training Officer, points out the scored crankshaft journal of Olympic buses to some of the new class of trainee apprentices at the J.O.S. Engineering Training School at Tivoli Depot. Twelve youths between 15 and 17 years of age…