George Shillibeer (born in St Marylebone, London August 11, 1797, died August 21, 1866 in Brighton, England). The son of Abraham and Elizabeth Shillibeer. Christened in St Marys Church, St Marylebone on 22 October, 1797, Shillibeer worked for the coach company Hatchetts in Long Acre, the coach-building district of the capital. In the 1820s he was offered work in Paris, France where he was commissioned to build some unusually large horse-drawn coaches of "novel design". Wikipedia
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1797- August 21, 1866 A coachmaker in Bloomsbury, George Shillibeer built the first two omnibuses in England. He introduced the omnibus in London on July 4, 1829, carrying 22 passangers. Railways, litigation and competition forced him out of the transpo www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/shillibeer_g/shillibeer_...