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((Short description|Horse-drawn passenger transport vehicle))
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[[File:First vehicle to cross Holborn Viaduct.png|thumb|Horse-drawn omnibus in London, 1902]]

A '''horse-bus''' or '''horse-drawn omnibus''' was a large, enclosed, and sprung [[horse-drawn vehicle]] used for [[passenger]] transport before the introduction of [[motor vehicle]]s. It was mainly used in the late 19th century in both the United States and Europe, and was one of the most common means of transportation in cities. In a typical arrangement, two wooden benches along the sides of the passenger cabin held several sitting passengers facing each other. The driver sat on a separate, front-facing bench, typically in an elevated position outside the passengers' enclosed cabin. In the main age of horse buses, many of them were [[double-decker bus]]es. On the upper deck, which was uncovered, the longitudinal benches were arranged back to back.

[[File:Koets Breda 04.JPG|thumbnail|A private omnibus or "station bus"]]
Similar, if smaller, vehicles were often maintained at country houses (and by some hotels and railway companies) to convey servants and luggage to and from the railway station. Especially popular around 1870–1900, these vehicles were known as a 'private omnibuses' or 'station buses'; [[coachman]]-driven, they would usually accommodate four to six passengers inside, with room for luggage (and sometimes additional seating) on the roof.<ref name=Smith74>((cite book|last1=Smith|first1=D.J.|title=Discovering Horse-Drawn Carriages|date=1974|publisher=Shire Books Lts|location=Aylesbury, Bucks.))</ref>

A small open [[wagon]] with or without a top, but with an arrangement of the seats similar to horse-drawn omnibuses, was called a [[wagonette]].

==Etymology==
''[[Bus]]'' is a [[clipping (morphology)|clipped]] form of the Latin word ''omnibus''. A [[legend]], promoted by the French Transportations Museum website, says the name is derived from a hatter's shop of the [[:fr:Omnes|Omnes family]] in front of the first station opened in [[Nantes]] by Stanislas Baudry in 1823. "Omnes Omnibus" was a pun on the Latin-sounding name of that hatter Omnès: ''omnes'' (nominative plural) meaning "all" and ''omnibus'' (dative plural) meaning "for all" in [[Latin]]. Thence, the legend concludes, Nantes citizens gave the nickname of Omnibus to the vehicle.<ref name="amtuir">((cite web |url=http://www.amtuir.org/03_htu_generale/htu_1_avant_1870/htu_1.htm |title=Histoire générale des transports |publisher=French transportations Museum Website |access-date=16 September 2010 |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718154641/http://www.amtuir.org/03_htu_generale/htu_1_avant_1870/htu_1.htm |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

Though it is undisputed that the term arose with Stanislas Baudry's company, there is no record of any Omnès hatter living in that street. In 1892, the son of Baudry's bookkeeper wrote in the ''Bulletin de la Société archéologique de Nantes'' that ''omnibus'' had a simpler origin. Baudry used to call his horsecars ''Dames blanches'' (White ladies), a name which, critics told him, made no sense. He then replied, with the Latin word: "Then, these are ''omnibus'' cars!" (cars for all). The name caught on immediately. Other stories about the name origin quickly spread out.

The term 'omnibus' carried over to motor vehicles. The 1914 book ''Motor Body-building in all its Branches'', by Christopher William Terry, described an omnibus as having longitudinal seats in rows with either a rear door or side doors.<ref name="motorbody">((cite book
  | title = Motor Body-building in all its Branches, Christopher William Terry, 1914, p. 6
  | publisher = E.&F.N. Spon Limited, London
  | url = ((Google books |plainurl=yes |id=_qqEAAAAIAAJ |page=6 |title= )) 
))</ref>

==History==
The first known [[Public transport bus service|public bus line]] (known as a "Carriage" at that time) were ''[[carrosses à cinq sols]]'' launched by [[Blaise Pascal]] in 1662 in [[Paris]]. It was quite popular until fares were increased and access to the service was restricted to high society members by regulation. Services ceased after 15 years.<ref name="amtuir"/><ref>((cite web |url=http://www.herodote.net/histoire/evenement.php?jour=18260810 |title=Le temps de révolutions |publisher=Herodote.net |access-date=16 September 2010|language=fr))  Retrieved 13 June 2008.</ref>

In Britain, [[John Greenwood (bus operator)|John Greenwood]] opened the first bus line in Britain in [[Manchester]] in 1824. His pioneering idea was to offer a service where, unlike with a [[Stagecoaches|stagecoach]], no prior booking was necessary and the driver would pick up or set down passengers anywhere on request. The first omnibus was introduced in London in 1831.<ref>((cite book |title=The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge |date=1848 |publisher=Charles Knight |location=London |page=676 |edition=Vol IV))</ref> In 1833, legislation was passed to allow these long-bodied vehicles to ply the streets of the city, provided the drivers and conductors took out a license and wore a badge with a number on it.

[[File:Plan de la ville de Paris représentant les nouvelles voitures publiques - Entreprise générale des Dames Blanches.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A Paris omnibus in 1828]]
The Paris omnibus was started in 1828 by a businessman named Stanislas Baudry, who had begun the first French omnibus line in [[Nantes]] in 1826, using two spring-suspended carriages, each for 16 passengers.<ref name="Vance">((cite book
 | last = Vance
 | first = James E.
 | title = Capturing the Horizon: Historical Geography of Transportation Since the Transportation Revolution of the Sixteenth Century
 | publisher = Harper & Row
 | date = 1986
 ))</ref> Following success in Nantes, Baudry moved to Paris and founded the Enterprise des Omnibus on rue de Lancre, with workshops on the quai de Jemmapes. In 1827 he commissioned an English coach-maker, [[George Shillibeer]], to design a vehicle that could be stable and carry a large number of passengers. Shillibeer's design worked. On 28 April 1828, the first Paris omnibus began service, running every fifteen minutes between La Madeleine and la Bastille. Before long, there were one hundred omnibuses in service, with eighteen different itineraries. A journey cost twenty-five centimes. The omnibuses circulated between seven in the morning and seven in the evening; each omnibus could carry between twelve and eighteen passengers.  The busiest line was that along the Grand Boulevards; it ran from eight in the morning until midnight. ((sfn|Fierro|1996|pages=1031–1032))

The Paris omnibus service was an immediate popular success, with more than two and a half million passengers in the first six months. There was no reliable way to collect money from the passengers, or the fare collectors kept much of the money for themselves;  In its first years the company was continually on the verge of bankruptcy, and in despair, Baudry committed suicide in February 1830. Baudry's partners reorganized the company and managed to keep it in business.((sfn|Fierro|1996|pages=1031–1032))

In September 1828, a competing company, les Dames-Blanches, had started running its own vehicles.  In 1829 and the following years, more companies with poetic names entered the business;  les Citadines, les Tricycles, les Orléanises, les Diligentes, les Écossaises, les Béarnaises, les Carolines, les Batignollaises, les Parisiennes, les Hirondelles, les Joséphines, les Excellentes, les Sylphides, les Constantines, les Dames-Françaises,  les Algériennes, les Dames-Réunies, and les Gazelles.  The omnibus had a profound effect on Parisian life, making it possible for Parisians to work and have a social life outside their own neighborhoods.((sfn|Héron de Villefosse|1959|page=317))

By 1845, 13 companies in Paris operated 20 or 23 omnibus lines. In 1855, [[Napoleon III]] had them combined into a single company, the Compagnie générale des omnibus, with a monopoly on Paris public transportation. Beginning in 1873, they were gradually replaced by tramways, and, beginning in 1906, by the ''omnibus automobile'', or motor bus. The last horse-drawn Paris omnibus ran on 11 January 1913, from Saint-Sulpice to La Villette.((sfn|Fierro|1996|pages=1031–1032))

[[File:Shillibeer's first omnibus.png|thumb|George Shillibeer's first London omnibus, 1829]]
Buses have been used on the streets of London since 1829. [[George Shillibeer]] saw the success of the Paris omnibus in service and concluded that operating similar vehicles in London would be commercially successful. His first London "Omnibus", using the same design and name as the Paris vehicle, took up service on 4 July 1829 on the route between [[Paddington]], The [[Yorkshire Stingo]], and [[Bank of England|Bank]] via the [[New Road (eighteenth century north London turnpike road)|New Road]] (now [[Marylebone Road]]), [[Somers Town, London|Somers Town]] and [[City Road]]. Four services were provided in each direction daily. Shillibeer's success prompted many competitors to enter the market, and for a time buses were referred to as 'Shillibeers'.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://knowledgeoflondon.com/buses.html|title=The London Omnibus|website=knowledgeoflondon.com))</ref> Shillibeer built another bus for the [[Quaker]] [[Newington Academy for Girls]] near London; this had a total of 25 seats, and entered history as the first [[school bus]]. On London omnibuses, the introduction of the clerestory roof in 1847, to provide more headroom inside, allowed the provision of a longitudinal seat on the upper deck. Outside fares were, like stage coaches, cheaper than for travelling inside.<ref>((cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Charles E |title=The Horse Bus as a Vehicle |date=1974 |publisher=London Transport |location=London |isbn=0 85329 053 9 |page=6))</ref>

In 1850 [[Thomas Tilling]] started [[horse bus]] services,<ref>((Cite web|url=https://localtransporthistory.co.uk/pioneers/people/tilling/|title=Thomas Tilling 1825-1893 and Thomas Tilling Ltd. 1897-1969 - Local Transport History))</ref> and in 1855 the [[London General Omnibus Company]] or LGOC was founded to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn omnibus services then operating in London.<ref name="ltm1829">((cite web | title = From omnibus to ecobus, 1829–1850  | url = http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/learning/online_resources/ecobus_omnibus/pg/1829.htm | publisher = [[London Transport Museum]] | access-date = 3 July 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070609023652/http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/learning/online_resources/ecobus_omnibus/pg/1829.htm |archive-date = 9 June 2007))</ref>

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1973-030C-18, Pferdeomnibus, Berlin.jpg|thumb|left|Berlin horsebus]]
The public transport system of Berlin is the oldest one in Germany. In 1825 the first bus line from [[Brandenburger Tor]] to [[Charlottenburg]] was opened by Simon Kremser, running to a [[Public transport timetable|timetable]].<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.textagentur-grimm.de/kremser.html|title=Simon Kremser (1775-1851) |website=www.textagentur-grimm.de))</ref> The first bus service inside the city operated from 1840 between [[Alexanderplatz]] and [[Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof|Potsdamer Bahnhof]]. It was run by Israel Moses Henoch, who had organized the cab service since 1815.<ref>Elfi Bendikat: ((Google books |id=X4j4rJSvACoC |page=103 |title=Öffentliche Nahverkehrspolitik in Berlin und Paris 1839 bis 1914 )) (Walter de Gruyter), Seite 103</ref><ref>http://www.ceciliengaerten-berlin.de/web/zeitrahmen/1800_1899.html ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109011420/http://www.ceciliengaerten-berlin.de/web/zeitrahmen/1800_1899.html |date=9 November 2014 )) Cecilengarten Berlin: Zeitrahmen</ref>
On 1 January 1847, the ''Concessionierte Berliner Omnibus Compagnie'' (Berlin Bus Concession Company) started its first horse-bus line. The growing market experienced the launch of numerous additional companies, with 36 bus companies in Berlin by 1864.

From the end of the 1820s, the first horse-drawn omnibuses ran in the streets of [[New York City]],<ref>((Cite web |date=2016-03-09 |title=New York Transit Museum - Teacher Resource Center - History of Public Transportation in New York City |url=http://www.transitmuseumeducation.org/trc/background |access-date=2022-03-18 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309053412/http://www.transitmuseumeducation.org/trc/background |archive-date=9 March 2016 |url-status=dead))</ref> facilitating the [[march uptown]].

[[File:Hestetrukken omnibus på Strøget.jpg|thumb|upright|Horsebus in Copenhagen, 1907]]
Horses pulling buses could only work for limited hours per day, had to be housed, groomed, fed and cared for every day, and produced large amounts of manure, which the omnibus company had to store and dispose of. Since a typical horse pulled a bus for four or five hours per day, covering about a dozen miles, many systems needed ten or more horses in stable for each bus.

With the advent of mass-produced steel in around 1860, horse-buses were put on rails as the same horse could then move 3 to 10 times as many people. This was not only more efficient, but faster and produced, in an age of unpaved streets, a far superior ride. These horse drawn trams were converted to cable-drawn cars in some larger cities, as still exist in San Francisco, the underground cable being driven by stationary steam engines.

At around 1890, electric propulsion became practical and replaced both the horse and the cable and the number of tram lines expanded exponentially. This was seen as a huge advance in urban transport and considered a wise investment at that time. These became known as streetcars, trams or trolleys, and still exist in many cities today, though often having been replaced by the less infrastructure intensive motorbus.

[[File:Copenhagen horse bus.jpg|thumb|Preserved 1857 horse bus in Copenhagen]]
From the beginning of the twentieth century the remaining horse buses which had not been converted to rail began to be replaced by petrol-driven motor [[bus]]es, or autobuses. The last recorded horse omnibus in London was a Tilling bus which last ran, between Peckham and Honor Oak Tavern, on 4 August 1914.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/postcodes/places/SE15.html|title=Riding on a knifeboard|work=London Museum|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202005111/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/postcodes/places/SE15.html|archive-date=2 December 2012))</ref> The last Berlin horse omnibus ran on 25 August 1923. Some horse buses remain in use today for tourist sightseeing tours.

==See also==
* [[Bus]] or autobus, the later motorized multi-person vehicle
* [[Horse-drawn vehicle]]
* [[Horse harness]]
* [[Stagecoach]] another type of horse-drawn passenger carriage for longer distances

==Bibliography==
*((cite book|last=Fierro|first=Alfred|title=Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris|year=1996|publisher=Robert Laffont|ISBN=2-221-07862-4))
*((cite book|last=Héron de Villefosse|first=René|title=Histoire de Paris|year=1959|publisher=Bernard Grasset))

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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180714022418/http://www.petergould.co.uk/local_transport_history/generalhistories/general/horsebus.htm Peter Gould: Local Transport Histories > The Horse Bus 1662–1932]

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