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Horace Clarke and conductress
"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."
Number 24 JOS terminus
"The No. 24 Terminus for 'Jolly Joe' at Hillside Crescent, Rennock Lodge. In the background is the Cement Factory. To the left, an uninhabited section of the Wareika Hills. The Rennock Lodge Youth Centre is out of sight, on the left."
Fire extinguisher on JOS bus
"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."
Crankshafts
"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…
Rennock Lodge
"The Rennock Lodge Story: As seen near the entrance to Hillside Crescent, 'Jolly Joe' is on its way back to Kingston."
Type 'A' Olympic 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…
New Leyland National
"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…
Leyland National bus
"Latest shipment of Leyland National buses for the Jamaica Omnibus Service. Picture was taken at the Industrial Terrace deport of the JOS."
Broken cylinder
"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…
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Victoria Jubilee Hospital
"HOSPITAL BLACKLASH: Mothers shown heading home from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital yesterday after nurses stopped working in protest against lax…