George Shillibeer, Globe Lodge 23 of London, had a successful carriage business, specializing in the manufacture of elegant hearses. He invented a way to make carriages longer and larger than ever before and manufactured those, calling his huge vehicle an "omnibus." With that, he established London's omnibus system, a forerunner of the bus system running there today. Given his successes with those two types of vehicles, he also invented a carriage which combined a hearse and a bus. The public's cool reception and short life of Brother Shillibeer's "Funeral Omnibus" confirms that not all ideas are good ones.
