Vintage photos depict buses on the streets of London in the early 20th century

   

The first buses to come into service did so slightly earlier, though – back in London. As soon as the war began, London’s buses were pressed into action.

Here is a small collection of vintage pictures that show London's traffic with kinds of wonderful buses in the early 20th century.

A bus and a midget car in a London street, 1928

 

An early double decker bus on a London street, 1905

 

 
Bus at the corner of Tottenham Court Road, London

 

Buses and trolleybuses in Kings Cross, London, ca. 1930s

 

 
Buses in London, 1927

 

 
Crowded bus on a street, London, 1928

 

Hammersmith Bridge, London, 1900

 

 
Karl Sander, a former German circus performer, demostrates his novel way of advertising as he rides besides a bus
in Streatham in south London, 9 August 1932

 

Kingsland Road, London, 1929

 

 
London Bus in autochrome, 1928

 

 
Ludgate Circus, London, 1927
 
On Tottenham Court Road,  1927

 

On Westminster Bridge, ca. 1910
 
Piccadilly Circus, London, 1939

 

Street scene at Trafalgar Square in the winter of 1915

 

 
Traffic in London, 1927

 

 
Victoria bus station in London, 1927
 
Buses in front of the National Gallery in London, 1927

 

Street traffic on London Bridge, 1927