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Description: | This horse harness, on the stable floor and hanging from beams, belongs to the London General Omnibus Company (L.G.O.C.), London's largest bus company.
The company was planning to sell or scrap much of its horse equipment. Since 1910, when the B-type, the first reliable motorbus had been introduced, horse power had been being replaced by motor power.
Horses were the L.G.O.C.'s biggest outlay. Up to 14 were needed to keep a single horse bus on the road in a working day. At its peak, the company owned nearly 17,000 horses; the costs of stabling, feeding and keeping them healthy were enormous. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Work | Temporal: | May 1911 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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