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unusual facts about London bus



Spirit of London

A prototype Alexander Dennis Enviro400 type London bus, named Spirit of London, which replaced the vehicle destroyed on 7 July 2005 by a terrorist bomb.

Sunday Sport

It prints plainly ludicrous stories, such as a double-decker London bus being found frozen in the Antarctic ice, or a World War II bomber found on the moon.


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Decca Radar

(The radar was named after the number of the London bus that passed the Brixton laboratory where the radar was designed and manufactured.)

First London

Dagenham garage operated London bus routes 165, 179 and 252, and 24-hour route 365 until 27 September 2013 when their contracts expired, and they passed to Stagecoach London.

London Bus Museum

The museum is operated by the London Bus Preservation Trust and exhibits around thirty-five examples (from its forty+ collection) of London buses, coaches and ancillary vehicles covering 100 years of development of the bus in London including Victorian-era horse-buses, 1920s open-top buses, streamlined 1930s designs and through the Second World War to the mass-standardisation of the 1950s, the Routemasters of the 1960s and the rear-engined buses of the 1970s.

London Buses route 372

In January 2009, the route was taken over by East London Bus Group (now Stagecoach London), who currently operate it with seven Alexander Dennis Enviro200 single-deckers from their Thameside subsidiary's garage in Rainham.

Sir Richard Paget, 2nd Baronet

Pamela's son and Sir Richard's grandson, Alexander Chancellor, wrote in his "Long Life" column in The Spectator that Pamela had broken her arm when Sir Richard encouraged her to throw herself backwards from the open platform of a London bus on Park Lane to demonstrate his theory that, due to air currents, one could fall horizontally from a bus travelling at a certain speed and land safely on the road.