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Three-quarter front offside view of a Chelmsford (later Clarkson) steam bus chassis with a London Road Car Company Limited body. The bus, registration number LC2320, is seen in service, full with passengers on the open top deck. The route ran between Hammersmith and Oxford Circus.
Unknown photographer, Sep 1905
Image no: C11009
Inventory no: 1999/6250
20th Century London caption: This is a Chelmsford (later Clarkson) steam bus chassis with a London Road Car Company Limited body. The steam bus, with its coal- or coke-fired boiler, was an experiment that proved neither popular nor economical compared to the motorbus. It has a registration number. These, and driving licences, were introduced in 1903. The route ran between Hammersmith and Oxford Circus. Two men are in the driver's seat. A large horn had become necessary now that streets were busier and traffic moved faster.
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