As with most new things, London has not been precipitate in introducing the motor- bus to its streets. Perhaps the only notable instance since the time of the early Victorian steam carriage was Mr.

A strange new vehicle appeared on the streets of Chicago for the first time on March 25, 1917. It was called a “bus.” Since 1859 public transit in Chicago had been–literally–street railways. The first ...

“The Kowloon Motor Bus Company [KMB] are ex­pec­ting delivery shortly of a double-decker motor bus from England with which they will make experimental runs on the Peninsula,” ran a story in the South ...