Group    From 1855  To 1933

London General Omnibus Company

Categories: Transport

Transport company. It was originally an Anglo-French enterprise, also known as the Compagnie Generale des Omnibus de Londres. It became the largest omnibus operator in London, buying out hundreds of independently owned buses. In 1912, it was bought by the Underground Group, which owned most of the London Underground, and eventually became, first, part of the new London Passenger Transport Board, and then Transport for London.

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London General Omnibus Company

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Chalk Farm bus garage - WW1 1920 plaque - lost

The unveiling image (© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection) is ca...

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Holloway Road bus garage - WW1 memorial - lost

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Willesden bus garage WW1 memorial

"No greater honour..etc." is surely a quotation but we cannot source it.

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Chiltern Railways

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1 memorial