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Sylvia Birdseye (née Merrill) (1902–1962) was the first woman to hold a commercial bus driving licence in South Australia. She initiated a regular mail and passenger service between Adelaide and Eyre Peninsula in 1928. In 1946, her bus became bogged south of Whyalla, isolated by flood waters for 8 days, with 25 passengers. Rations were dropped to the stranded group from an aircraft.

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rdfs:comment	Sylvia Birdseye (née Merrill) (1902–1962) was the first woman to hold a commercial bus driving licence in South Australia. She initiated a regular mail and passenger service between Adelaide and Eyre Peninsula in 1928. In 1946, her bus became bogged south of Whyalla, isolated by flood waters for 8 days, with 25 passengers. Rations were dropped to the stranded group from an aircraft. (en)
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birth date	1902-01-26 (xsd:date)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Birdseye Highway 1902 births Cowell, South Australia Elliston, South Australia Streaky Bay, South Australia Port Augusta, South Australia 1962 deaths Ceduna, South Australia Whyalla Adelaide Eyre Peninsula 20th-century Australian women Bus drivers People from South Australia South Australia Woodville, South Australia Port Lincoln, South Australia Mannum, South Australia dbr:Alfred_Birdseye
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birth name	Sylvia Jessie Catherine Merrill (en)
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has abstract	Sylvia Birdseye (née Merrill) (1902–1962) was the first woman to hold a commercial bus driving licence in South Australia. She initiated a regular mail and passenger service between Adelaide and Eyre Peninsula in 1928. Sylvia Jessie Catherine Merrill was born near Port Augusta on 26 January 1902. She was the daughter of Charles De Witt and Elizabeth Ann Merrill. Her father was a station-hand. She moved to Adelaide in 1921 to work in the office of family friend , who had established South Australia's first motor transport, the Adelaide–Mannum bus. She found that driving the buses was more appealing than office work after learning to drive with Alfred's daughter Gladys. Three years later she obtained a licence to drive a passenger vehicle, the first woman in South Australia to do so. On 23 October 1923, she married Alfred's son Sydney Alick Birdseye, her first dancing partner in Port Augusta. After his father sold the Mannum service in 1926, Sydney and Sylvia began a bus service between Adelaide and Port Augusta. They later extended services to Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay and Ceduna. Roads on Eyre Peninsula were little more than horse tracks before World War II, not particularly suited to a motor bus of the time. Birdseye had a reputation for driving skill and toughness. She wore overalls, changed her own tyres, performed most of the maintenance and repairs and waded creek crossings to ensure the bus could cross safely. Sylvia continued to operate the service after her husband's death in 1954, and was preparing for a service to Port Lincoln when she suffered a stroke in 1962, and died the next day. The Birdseye Highway across Eyre Peninsula between Cowell and Elliston is named in her honour. It was the first highway in South Australia to be named for a woman. In 1946, her bus became bogged south of Whyalla, isolated by flood waters for 8 days, with 25 passengers. Rations were dropped to the stranded group from an aircraft. (en)
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