The steam bus links was installed in London, Paris, and Brussels and on other places about 1830. The steam carriages reached the speed till 50 km per hour even in that time. This traffic reached the unusual boom especially in England where were constructed the least 50 the steam carriages they were often perfect and equipped for transporting 5 – 20 persons. W. H. James steam carriage had enough some differential it means mutual independent turning both back wheels [in the curve the inner wheel is turning slowly and the outer one more quickly]. Englishmen Walter Hancock has the great merit about public traffic that had built total 9 carriages in 1827 – 1838. He established the public town’s traffic between London and Puddingstone. His steam carriages were very safety and they had very elegant shape, which in a lot of directions remind buses from our days. They were very popular at costumers nevertheless the obstructions especially from the side of entrepreneurs of railways made that he had to stop his traffic after a half of year.

Hancock's  omnibus - 1834.

The first bus with the combustion engine was appeared between 1895 and 1897. It was for eight passengers its engine was one – cylinder and had 4 HP. Later petrol’s buses ran between Nantes and Velhuil.

Since 1847 you could see the first double – Decker bus but with a horse tug. The floor’s buses with the closed the upper floor and diesel engine were appeared here in 1930. The buses tugged with horses did not appeared immediately after installing the combustion engines. The last British bus with the horse’s tug was a write – off in Newmarket in 1932 after it when one of the tug horses died.

Skoda 506 from 1930

Skoda 706 RTO from 1958
(Both pictures taken from http://www.mujweb.cz/www/machr/ramecky.html)

In a half of 80ties 3,5 millions of buses were produced in the whole world.