Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery; Illustration

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [2]

Subjects:

Transport, Progress, Gender

    Rejoices in the establishment in London of the new 'Manchester and Glasgow' kind of omnibuses—vehicles noted for being 'kind, spacious, clean, comfortable', and drawn by three instead of two horses. Notes Mr Punch's recommendation of the new vehicles to crinoline-clad women, and his hopes that 'great numbers of the new omnibuses will be launched', thus driving to distraction the 'atrocious things which at present infest London' (i.e. the city's existing omnibuses). The illustrations give two different views of the inside of the luxurious new omnibuses.