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Description: | This photographic postcard shows the funeral procession of bus driver Albert Roy Luxton, which took place on 15 June 1912. Luxton was killed in a bus accident at Highgate seven days earlier, aged 34 years.
Mr Luxton was a bus driving instructor with the London General Omnibus Company. He had been on the bus with three learner drivers, one of whom was driving. On Highgate Hill, the brakes had failed. Luxton took over the wheel but was unable to regain control of the bus. He sustained serious injuries in the resulting crash, and later died in hospital.
Mr Luxton was hailed a hero and large crowds gathered to watch his funeral procession. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Copyright unknown - London Transport Museum Collection | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1912 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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