Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company: Difference between revisions

The '''{{PAGENAME}}''', often shortened to just '''P&O''', were a global transport company active in at least 1887. They arranged at least passenger service on some of the world's longest routes, such at the multi-week journey between [[Tilbury]] and [[Bombay]] which [[Bernice Summerfield]], the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[John Watson]] and [[Sherlock Holmes]] once endured. This voyage, and its return, were undertaken on the [[SS Matilda Briggs|SS ''Matilda Briggs'']], and involved passage by [[Port Said]] through the [[Suez Canal]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'')

Whether because of [[Andy Lane]]'s or his editor's mistake, ''All-Consuming Fire'' doesn't get the name of this company ''quite'' right. Still, there's no real doubt that writer [[Andy Lane]] means to evoke the ''Peninsular'' and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. In any case, most of the novel uses the abbreviation P&O, as most Britons do to this day.