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<font face="Californian FB">I LOVE this Stuart! <br>
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I knew there were competing bus companies. Weren't they painted
different colors? But I didn't know there were "pirates"! <br>
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Thanks so much for sharing. It helps us see just how daring
Elizabeth is.<br>
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Danell<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/3/2013 7:54 AM, Stuart N. Clarke
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<div>Elizabeth Dalloway gets on an “irregular” ‘bus in
Victoria St, nr the Army and Navy Stores:</div>
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<div>“She took a seat on top. The impetuous creature—a
pirate—started forward, sprang away; she had to hold the
rail to steady herself, for a pirate it was, reckless,
unscrupulous, bearing down ruthlessly, circumventing
dangerously, boldly snatching a passenger, or ignoring a
passenger, squeezing eel-like and arrogant in between, and
then rushing insolently all sails spread up Whitehall.”</div>
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<div>Then into Trafalgar Sq, along the Strand. She gets off
at Chancery Lane, just past the Royal Courts of Justice
where the Strand becomes Fleet St.</div>
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<div>The most famous bus route in London is the no. 11. The
savvy (and economical) tourist choses that bus rather than a
tour bus, as the no. 11 goes past so many famous sights,
inc. St Paul’s, on its way to Liverpool St Station. The new
London bus starts on that route on 21 Sept:</div>
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title="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15493.aspx"
href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15493.aspx">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15493.aspx</a></div>
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<div>“The very first ‘pirate’ bus to operate in central London
began work on route 11 ... on 5 August 1922, and by the end
of 1923 there were 70 such operators.”, Michael H. C. Baker,
“London Transport in the 1920s” (Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan
Publishing, 2009), p. 8.</div>
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<div>The no. 11 goes past the Army & Navy Stores.</div>
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<div>The ref. to a pirate bus is yet one more post-war ref. in
“Mrs. Dalloway”:</div>
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<div>“Some young men, having acquired skills in a war which
was described as the first truly mechanical one, bought a
war-surplus bus or lorry ... and set up business. A
downpayment of £100 was all that was necessary; the
Metropolitan Police had to approve the roadworthiness of the
vehicle, but, that done, it could operate wherever its owner
chose. ... At the beginning of 1920 the demand for buses far
outstripped the number available, and there was plenty of
scope for those who were prepared to take up the
challenge. Very few of these enterprises were long lived
...” (“London Transport in the 1920s”, pp. 7-8).</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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