Showing The Bus We Loved: London's Affair with the Routemaster by Travis Elborough

In December 2005, London lost one its most famous symbols: the Routemaster bus - a bus designed and made in London, by Londoners for Londoners, which was to London what the gondola is to Venice. This work tells the story of the routemaster's invention, rise and decline, of the people who worked on it, and of the enthusiasts who were mad about it.