The letters on a badge denoted the 'traffic area' where it was issued, in all areas except London the letter was doubled, as seen below.
(KK was the South East area, Brighton etc., N was London. Brimingham and the Midlands was DD.)
Badges were notorious for coming off the jacket lapel and getting lost - so if anyone found driver's badge DD 61276 wherever I lost it - can I have it back please?!
Michael was at Washwood Heath Garage from 1963 to about 65 he came back as a driver in 1967 he can't remember when he left.....old agelolthanks for replies, Wendy what garage did Michael work at
Hi John I too was a conductor,prior to becoming a driver, On both badges were the letters DD this indicated the badges were issued in the midland area,every area had its own letters,when your moms badge was issued in the war her badge had maybe 3 or 4 numbers,mine was issued to me in the 60's and had 5 numbers,they were issued in order so the older the badge the lower the number Hope this helpsMy Mom was a bus conductoress at Hockley depot circa 1940's does any one know what would be on the badge they had to wear (letters & numbers)