The Washington Motor Coach System was a bus line formed in 1925 by combining the certificates of a number of smaller companies. In 1933, the company began placing young women, called conductorettes, on the buses to assist the drivers. The conductorettes took tickets, made out trip reports and did other necessary bookkeeping. Along the route they made passengers comfortable, answered questions and pointed out sites of interest. Conductorettes worked on Washington Motor Coach buses until 1943. The company was taken over by Greyhound Lines in 1947.

This photo depicts bus driver Ralph Tucker and conductorette Berneyl Snyder Kelly.

Caption information source: Notes of Ernest Feller, collection donor.