[1] The electrobus was the first practical battery-electric bus and a forerunner of the electric buses that are experiencing a major resurgence in the 21st century.
[2] The company, which was first registered in April 1906, started running a service of electrobuses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street on 15 July 1907.
[4] The company introduced a number of innovations and it was the first double-decker bus operator to experiment with a roof on the upper deck.
[5] At the peak of its success in late 1908 the company had 20 or so buses in operation[6][7] and it started to run a second bus route from Victoria to Kilburn.
[citation needed] However, the London Electrobus Company was beset by financial chicanery throughout its short existence.