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Description: | This London General Omnibus Company B.-type bus has been converted into a pigeon loft for carrier pigeons during the First World War. The pigeons would carry messages to and from the Front.
Three soldiers stand in front of the bus posing for the photo while a driver in military uniform sits in the cab. The soldier with three pips on his uniform is a captain.
In the absence of more sophisticated communications such as radio, pigeons were vital in relaying messages, both critical and routine. The bicycle in the shot represented another important means of getting messages from one point to another. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport London at War | Temporal: | 1914 - 1918 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Copied by : Colin Tait | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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