Born thirty-eight years ago at Sheerness, Fred Chaplin wanted to be a journalist but- was apprenticed at sixteen to a grocer. In 1937, after trying his hand at a number of jobs, he joined London Transport, and today Is the driver of a No. 47 bus. Fred is a settled married man with five children, but he still regrets the career he missed—journalism
Written by Warwick Charlton
Production by Audrey Jones