Home By River - With the Lord Mayor of London and British film star Patricia Roc among the passengers, Oganic, one of the new Thames water buses, makes its first journey. The service, which will ease crush-hour travel, was over-whelmed by thousands of day -trippers on its first day, and most city workers had to queue. The service is between Putney and Greenwich, and there is a bus every half-hour. July 29, 1948.