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The earliest horse-drawn double-deckers in London

had steps at the back, so that people could climb 6 ______ onto

the roof. The main difference with today's buses was that in those days, there

was no 7 ______ for the people travelling on top: if it rained,

they could pull a sort of oil-cloth cover out of the back of the seat in front

of them, and pull it over them; but they still got wet. Today the only

open-topped buses are 8 ______ tourist buses.

It wasn't until the 1930's that all new buses came equipped 9 ______ roofs over the upper deck! Increasingly powerful

engines meant that buses could be bigger and heavier; like trams, they could

then have roofs.

The most famous London

buses, however, are not those that filled the Capital's streets in the 1930's,

but the powerful "Routemasters" which date

from the 1950's and 60's. These are the buses that have been taken all over the

world, the buses that you can see in the tourist brochures, and the ones which

have been sold, in miniature, to millions of visitors and souvenir hunters.

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