The first buses to come into service did so slightly earlier, though – back in London. As soon as the war began, London’s buses were pressed into action. Here is a small collection of vintage pictures that show London's traffic with kinds of wonderful buses in the early 20th century. A bus and a midget car in a London street, 1928 An early double decker bus on a London street, 1905 Bus at the corner of Tottenham Court Road, London Buses and trolleybuses in Kings Cross, London, ca. 1930s Buses in London, 1927 Crowded bus on a street, London, 1928 Hammersmith Bridge, London, 1900 Karl Sander, a former German circus performer, demostrates his novel way of advertising as he rides besides a bus in Streatham in south London, 9 August 1932 Kingsland Road, London, 1929 London Bus in autochrome, 1928 Ludgate Circus, London, 1927 On Tottenham Court Road, 1927 On Westminster Bridge, ca. 1910 Piccadilly Circus, London, 1939 Street scene at Trafalgar Square in the winter of 1915 Traffic in London, 1927 Victoria bus station in London, 1927 Buses in front of the National Gallery in London, 1927 Street traffic on London Bridge, 1927