A bus-driving pioneerSourced
Sweden's first woman bus driver
was called “Buss-Berta.”
Berta Persson drove the Kappelshamn–Visby route from 1927 to 1934. As Sweden's first female bus driver, she earned the nickname Buss-Berta.
Her job became
her nickname.
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