"Rising at three o'clock this morning, men of a RASC unit drove 12 miles into South Shields in readiness to take workers to their places of employment up the Tyne, as a result of the strike of bus drivers and conductors in the North East. The soldier drivers, most of whom are either men of low medical category as a result of being wounded overseas, or boys of 18 and 19, took over this morning from another unit which has been transferred to some more important work. Some of the soldiers will finish work and return to their unit at 7pm, but half will be on duty until 10.30a.m."
