“Fun” on City Travel — Cabs & Omnibuses (original) (raw)

What Drivers and Conductors have to endure

• Envious Chaff
• The New “Mayne” Law.
• Must ask to have
• ’Bus Driver to Conductor
• A Heavy Swell.
• Taxation and Civilization
• A Sell
• Our Friend the Cabby Again
• Sacrilege
• The Tram-Car Slave and the Tram-Car Director

The Passenger’s experience

• Agreeable! (Traveling crowded with strangers)
• Caution to Omnibus Travellers
• The Suburban Bus
• A Contented Mind
• Too cold outside?
• Will any Lady ride outside to oblige a Gentleman?
• Very Communicative
• Racing Times
• Do you go to Chelsea?
• Kind and Considerate
• A Broad Hint (about the fare)
• A Broad Hint (cadging a cigar)
• Too Bad
• Heavy Pressure
• Nearly Full
• Obliging — Very
• Hansom is as Hansom Does?
• Very Considerate Indeed
• Wet and Dry
• Hansom is as Hansom Does
• The Sound But Not the Sense.
• Hansom is as Hansom Does.
• A Non-Conductor

Cabbies vs. ’Bus Driver and Conductors (and vs. the Underground)

• A Slighting Remark
• Poor Little Chap!
• Complimentary to Travellers by The Underground

Verse

• “Lyrics of Locomotion: The Ballad of the ’Bus Man”

Related material: The Omnibus in Victorian literature, art, and other humor

• Omnibuses, Coaches, Carriages, and Other Horse-Drawn Vehicles
• Punch on Urban Life: the Omnibus
• Oscar Wilde’s “Symphony in Yellow”
• Trouble on the top of the omnibus (Punch)
• Phil May’s Bus driver to cabbie (Punch)
• Omnibus crossing London Bridge (late-Victorian or Edwardian photograph)

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Last modified 21 February 2016