This image of an open-top red London omnibus hurtling along Regent Street was used by Claude Flight as the frontispiece to his first linocut textbook, Lino-cuts: A Hand-book of Linoleum-cut Colour Printing (1927). The rise of colour linocuts in the 1920s and 1930s stemmed from the influential work of Claude Flight, a tutor at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, London, and an energetic champion of the linocut medium through exhibitions and his own writings. Flight appreciated the expressive qualities of linocut, and its potential to capture the forms and spirit of the modern age - including metropolitan life and pursuits.