Word: linkmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tourists were edified. They could boast of seeing "linkmen"* going once more about London town, bearing torches before the motorcars and persons of the great. Bus conductors walked ten feet ahead of their busses, connected with them by electric wires on which lamps glowed. When two bus conductors sighted each other they signaled port or starboard to the drivers whose busses did not then bump. At Charing Cross, at every major crossing, huge gasoline torches sent up roaring flames three feet high?barely visible at ten yards...