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A man in a suit and a small child in short trousers stand beside an early 1920s motor bus with the license plate EB 3549.

Littleport, Washington’s Motor Bus c.1922

City Road, Littleport

History of City Road

William Washington set up as a carrier in City Road in 1842. He would travel to and from Ely at least once every day.

His grandson, Bert, succeeded to the business in 1922 and bought a motor bus known as ‘Old Grey’, supposedly the fist bus in the areas with pneumatic tyres.

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