Bibliography
There isn’t any other book about the electrobus swindle. If you want to delve further into the murky world of Edwardian finance some of the best starting places are the books by David Kynaston and George Robb, and the chapter-length articles by Dilwyn Porter and James Taylor.
Julian Symons’s biography of Horatio Bottomley, one of the more notable fraudsters of the era, is an entertaining read while there is masterly survey of the development of transport in Philip Bagwell’s book.
For sheer audacity the exposé of Bucket Shop Methods stands in a class on its own. For the corporate author, Securities Exchange, was a well-known bucket shop. The bibliography below is a fuller version of the one that appears in the book.
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Other useful works include the Dictionary of Business Biography, the Directory of Directors, the Manual of Electrical Undertakings, the Statistical Abstract for London, the Stock Exchange Yearbook and the Truth Cautionary List, published annually as a supplement to Truth from 1908 to 1913.