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<DIV>Yes, the different bus companies had different colours.</DIV>
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Being</I> Virginia remembered her mother, who</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“did all her immense
rounds—shopping, calling, visiting hospitals and work houses—in omnibuses.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was an omnibus expert.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She would nip from the red to the blue,
from the blue to the yellow, and make them somehow connect and convey her all
over London.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes she would
come home very tired, owning that she had missed her bus or the bus had been
full up, or she had got beyond the radius of her favourite
buses.”</FONT></FONT></SPAN><BR clear=all>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>However, by the 1920s the main co. was the London
Transport General Company (the LGOC, or the “General”), and its livery was red,
and that’s why London buses are red today.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Stuart</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=danelljones@bresnan.net
href="mailto:danelljones@bresnan.net">Danell Jones</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 03, 2013 3:01 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Pirate omnibuses</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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face="Californian FB">I LOVE this Stuart! <BR><BR>I knew there were
competing bus companies. Weren't they painted different colors? But
I didn't know there were "pirates"! <BR><BR>Thanks so much for
sharing. It helps us see just how daring Elizabeth
is.<BR><BR>Danell<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT>
<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 9/3/2013 7:54 AM, Stuart N. Clarke
wrote:<BR></DIV>
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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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<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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