Men and masters, pull together, no surrender! no retreat!
“To the public I’m appealing; forward help this gallant band,
’Neath the grand old flag of England in your thousands take your stand;
Trace to them all known improvements, now, as in the days of yore,
When a change is really needed, they’ll send five-and-twenty more.”
“Cead a Mille Failthe.”
“D” and “B” and “J” are Mr. Duff, the manager of the Road Car Company, and Messrs. Bristow and Jones, two other officials.
The London Road Car Company has certainly, during its comparatively short career, been more enterprising than its rivals in providing for the comfort of the omnibus-travelling public; but it is scarcely entitled to much sympathy in connection with the Putney and Brondesbury struggle, considering that, not many years ago, it meted out to a small company treatment similar to that of which it now complains. It compelled that company—which also issued an appeal to the public—to submit to its terms, in spite of the fact that, unlike the London General Omnibus Company and other companies who are members of the various associations, it does not pay compensation for placing its omnibuses on a route which another company has planned and worked into success.
It is somewhat surprising that the London General Omnibus Company and the proprietors associated with it have not thought it advisable to publish periodically, for the convenience of the public, a list of their routes. Visitors to London are frequently in need of such a guide. The following is a list of omnibus lines which run through or into London.
Acton and Charing Cross (viâ Shepherd’s Bush, Bayswater Road, Oxford Street, and Regent Street).