Omnibuses and cabs : their origin and history (1902)
Moore, Henry Charles · London : Chapman & Hall, ld. · leaf 126
that no bus with a flag ran to what shecalled Crick-le-Wood. The London Road Car Companys flags haveon several occasions been utilised for arousino:the enthusiasm of London crowds. On Sunday,September 24, 1899, a few unpatriotic English-men desecrated the plinth of Nelsons Column byexpressing… … o p < oo o slowly through the crowd. A passenger, ridingon top of the omnibus, no sooner discovered the io8 Omnibuses and Cabs meaning of the angry shouts, than he pulled theflagstaff from its socket, and waved aloft the littleUnion Jack. Loud cheers greeted his action, andthe pro-Boer orators…
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