2-703-552 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'How London Has Changed Since "Toppers" Were Worn By Outside Passengers', c1900, (c1935). Passengers wearing top hats on the upper deck of a horse-drawn London bus. Such buses dated back to 1829, the first being George Shillibeer's 'Omnibus'. The last recorded horse omnibus service was a Tilling bus which ran between Peckham and Honor Oak Tavern in 1914. From "Wonderful London, Volume 1", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]