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The Bus We Loved In December 2005, London lost one its most famous symbols: the Routemaster bus - a bus designed and made in London, by Londoners for Londoners, which was to London what the gondola is to Venice. This work tells the story of the routemaster's invention, rise and decline, of the people who worked on it, and of the enthusiasts who were mad about it. Full description
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"Elborough's cheerful memoir provides all manner of information
about the vanished vehicule"
-- The Sunday Times
‘A pocket- sized production as sleek as the vehicle it elegises’ -- London Review of Books
‘Heartfelt elegy to the Routemaster, as it disappears from our streets and Satan’s squeezebox takes its place’ -- Metropolitan Books, Independent on Sunday
‘Quirky ...a light hearted read...that will amuse as well as tell the story of one of London’s best loved buses’ -- Bus Fayre
‘This well-told story is one that was worth telling’ -- TLS
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In December 2005, London lost one its most famous symbols: the Routemaster bus - a bus designed and made in London, by Londoners for Londoners, which was to London what the gondola is to Venice. In terms of postcards, books, films, and cheap souvenirs, and in the eyes of the world, the Routemaster represented the city just as much as Big Ben. It was the last bus to be have conductors as well as drivers, the last bus to ring familiar shouts that are at least a century old: Fares please, Full up inside but room on top, Next stop the British Museum! The last bus, in other words, to be a proper bus. In this fond history, Travis Elborough tells the story of the routemaster's invention, rise and decline, of the people who worked on it, and of the enthusiasts who were mad about it. The streets will never be the same again.
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1862078858
- ISBN 13 9781862078857
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages210
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