I might start a new feature on this site featuring the best designed object of the week I can find. Here is this week's, a London omnibus converted during the first world war into a mobile pigeon loft.
It's a fabulous object - a miniature arts and crafts house attached to the chassis of a bus - but it raises some interesting questions, not least how the pigeons find their way back. Aren't the lofts meant to be stationary and the pigeons mobile? I like this idea of reversing typologies. Floating airports and stationery planes for instance. Or museums that come to visit you.
What were the pigeons used for? The London Transport Museum website where the picture is taken from doesn't say. Pigeon lofts are fascinating things generally though, of which more later....
