'The "Express" Bus', 1900, (1933). Open-top horse-drawn bus outside Ye Olde Swiss Cottage public house in north London. These express buses 'ran from Swiss Cottage via Oxford Street and Holborn to the Bank, and charged sixpence [2½ new pence] for any distance'. The back of the bus bears an advertisement for 'Carter's Little Liver Pills'. On the left a man up a ladder is painting the pub sign. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]

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