London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 The 10hp engine was lively

The 10hp engine was lively

11th September 1971

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were among those attending the ceremony

June 1978 78-3052-005

designed by Robert Smirke

London's Nightmare mb-code 1620220 The 10hp engine was lively'London's Nightmare', 1866. A man holding banner with the word Bumbledom on it, sits on the chest of a woman representing London. He has a particularly stupid expression on his face. Bumbledom was the term used to encapsulate 'the conflicting jurisdictions of folks who ought to have no jurisdiction at all, and who job, blunder, squabble, and utterly misgovern the metropolis of the world'. Bumbledom was thus seen as stifling the capital. From Punch, or