Costly bob's worth
29th December 1978, Page 14
29th December 1978
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Page 14, 29th December 1978
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London bus fares seem positively cheap when one remembi that the fare from Paddington to the Bank by Shillibee single-deck, three-horse, 20-seat bus in 1829 was a shillir That would have been a large slice out of the average mai day's pay.
A film being made by London Transport will commemore the 150th anniversary of the first London bus and include sequence in which a 50-year-old replica of Shillibeer's b covered its original route with passengers in period costurr The equivalent present-day fare would probably be at lee £2.50.
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