Item title reads: "Old Bill" of the Menin Road. King inspects one of the first buses to be sent to the War Zone - now back at its old job."
Buckingham Palace, London.
GV King George V reviewing war veterans. Pan across men dressed in bus drivers uniforms?
CU Plaque on bus bearing inscription of names of towns where the bus went during the war. Some of the towns include Antwerp, Somme, Amiens.
MS King George looking at bus which bears name of London General Omnibus Company.
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- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 16/02/1920
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 21408
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 206.13
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:00:55:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:22:08:00 / 01:23:03:00
- Canister:
- G 643
- Sort Number:
- G 0643
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jamied says
"Old Bill" is an AEC B-type bus.
"Some of the towns include Antwerp, Somme, Amiens" - the full inscription reads as follows;
1914 Antwerp, 1915 Ypres, 1916 Ancre, 1917 Somme, 1918 Amiens, 1919 Home, "Lest we Forget".