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TTC buses and drivers stand by on Commissioners St
TTC buses and drivers stand by on Commissioners St

TTC buses and drivers stand by on Commissioners St

Date6/17/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: TTC buses and drivers stand by on Commissioners St. today to transport strikebreakers to postal plants.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0017274F
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      Slaughter, Mike
      4/25/1990
      In case of accident, beware tidal wave! TTC employee pours 13 gallons of water into plastic safety bumber fitted on 30 new buses. Collision impact is (...)
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      Barkley, Harold
      5/14/1969
      After its last run, one of the TTC's 1,235 diesel buses is parked in company garage for duration of transit strike
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      Griffin, Doug
      9/20/1978
      Image shows a bus being loaded on a big ship.
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      Power, Peter
      4/30/1991
      Left behind: Ron Semple of North York, confined to a wheel chair by multiple sclerosis, watches buses leave terminal for areas outside Metro, buses not geared to handle the handicapped
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      Godfrey, Sharon
      7/12/1984
      These buses bend their way through Traffic, Nimble articulated buses like this AM General model, shown negotiating the intersection of Bay and Queen(...)
      These buses bend their way through Traffic, Nimble articulated buses like this AM General model, shown negotiating the intersection of Bay and Queen(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      9/26/1978
      Bus terminal's new face. Passengers find plenty of room to sit while waiting for buses in the main lobby of the terminal at Bay and Dundas Sts. after (...)
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      Spremo, Boris
      12/13/1990
      Pulling for a good cause, Humber College students pull two buses down Yonge St
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      Loek, Dick
      3/18/1995
      T.T.C., garage, Sherbourne Garage, Sherbourne St., northwest corner Esplanade E., showing 700 class buses
      T.T.C., garage, Sherbourne Garage, Sherbourne St., northwest corner Esplanade E., showing 700 class buses
      Salmon, James V. (James Victor)
      1951
      West York Coach Lines, garage [parking lot], Dundas Street West, southwest corner Pacific Avenue, looking north to Dundas St., showing, l. to r., buses #490 & #491 in foreground
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      Salmon, James V. (James Victor)
      1953
      Face to face for first time, TTC commissioners (left) join strike negotiators at the Royal York Hotel yesterday
      Face to face for first time, TTC commissioners (left) join strike negotiators at the Royal York Hotel yesterday
      Darrell, Dick
      8/22/1974
      Under pressure: TTC commissioners Mike Colle, left, Brian Harrison and Bev Salmon are being asked to skip tendering process for contract
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      City council members
      11/8/1985