All posts in the topic New names for Brighton and Hove Buses revealed (Short link)

Jun 18 09:29 UTC

I just pulled this from the Argus/ What is it about Brighton and Hove
that we can identify over 200 significant people with associations to
this town .... er, city .... and the list of names just keeps growing?

Full article at:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4439116.New_names_of_Brighton_and_Hove_buses_revealed/

Tony C

This is the list of names pulled from the wikipedia. So, what's the
story behind number 12 "Bruce"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brighton_and_Hove_buses_named_after_famous_people

1 Lord Attenborough (no longer in service)
2 Dora Bryan (no longer in service)
3 Norman Cook (no longer in service)
4 Chris Eubank (no longer in service)
6 Adam Faith (no longer in service) (now on 649)
8 Sally Gunnell (no longer in service)
11 Derek Jameson (no longer in service)
12 Bruce (no longer in service)
13 Alan Weeks (no longer in service) (now on 866)
14 Derek Jameson (no longer in service)
15 Des Lynam (no longer in service)
16 Annie Nightingale (no longer in service)
17 Leo Sayer (no longer in service)
18 Dusty Springfield (no longer in service) (now on 865)
19 The Who (no longer in service)
20 Sir Norman Wisdom (no longer in service)
51 Ron Cunningham (Shuttle 50)
52 Kenneth Fines (Shuttle 50)
53 Helena Normanton (Shuttle 50)
54 John Peckham (Shuttle 50)
55 Lis Solkhon (Shuttle 50)
56 Maurice Tate (Shuttle 50)
57 Ralph Vaughan Williams (Shuttle 50)

601 William Attree
602 Enid Bagnold
603 Aubrey Beardsley
604 Sir Edward Burne-Jones
605 Ellen Nye Chart
606 Tommy Farr
607 George Hole
608 Albert Ketèlbey
609 Gideon Mantell
610 Alan Melville
611 Dr Clifford Musgrave
612 Ray Noble
613 John Saxby
614 Sir Charles Aubrey Smith
615 Charlie Webb
616 Allen West
617 Douglas Reeve
618 Danny Sheldon
619 Margaret Bondfield
620 Oliver Bulleid
621 Ivy Compton-Burnett
622 C B Cochran
623 Tommy Cook
624 Eric Courtney-King
625 William Friese-Greene
626 Lord Fulton of Falmer
627 Patricia Harding
628 Dennis Hobden
629 George Humphrey
630 Harry Leader
631 Bobby Lee
632 Ida Lupino
633 Henry Solomon
634 Dorothy Stringer
635 Angela Thirkell
636 Grace Eyre Woodhead
637 Kenneth Bredon
638 Sir Anton Dolin
639 Raymond Francis
640 Graham Greene
641 John Jackson
642 Howard Johnson
643 Victoria Lidiard
644 K S Ranjitsinhji
645 Paul Stonor
646 Herbert Wilcox
647 Ernest Frederick Beal
648 Jimmy Edwards
649 Adam Faith
650 Prince Petr Kropotkin
651 John Langridge
652 Sir William Nicholson
653 James Osborne
654 Jack Solomons
655 Elizabeth Allan
656 Dame Henrietta Barnett
657 Wynne Baxter
658 Clementina Black
659 Helen Boyle
660 Sir Lindsay Bryson
661 Millicent Fawcett
662 Frank Bridge
663 Eric Gill
664 John Nelson Goulty
665 Jack Jenkins
666 Eleanor Marx
667 Dame Clara Butt
668 Bob Copper
669 Sir Edward Sassoon
670 Dr Herzl Sless
671 Vanessa Bell
672 Havergal Brian
673 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
674 John Constable
675 King Edward VII
676 Ray Evison
677 Elisabeth Howard
678 Jack Howe
679 Dr William King
680 George Larner
681 Sir George Lewis
682 Samuel Lewis
683 Terence Morgan
684 Chris Moyes
685 Donald Peers
686 Rev Frederick Robertson
687 Dr William Stone
688 Elsie & Doris Waters

763 Nicola & Declan (no longer in service)
768 Adam Trimingham
771 Pietro Addis (no longer in service)
773 Southern FM's Moody (no longer in service)
774 Bob Wilson (no longer in service)
775 Tina Goldberg-Lowe (no longer in service)
781 Bridges Residential Ltd (now converted to open-top for city
sightseeing, later renamed "Anne of Cleves")

801 King Charles II
802 Captain Nicholas Tettersell
803 Prince Regent
804 Dr Richard Russell
805 Maria Fitzherbert
806 Martha Gunn
807 Phoebe Hessel
808 Rudyard Kipling (no longer in service) (now on 869)
808 Les Hamilton
809 Sir Charles Barry
810 Magnus Volk
811 John Nash
812 Thomas Kemp
813 Sir Harry Preston
814 Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford
815 Sir Samuel Brown
816 Sir Herbert Carden
817 Lord Olivier
818 Lord Cohen
819 Max Miller
819 Micky Adams + Bobby Zamora (no longer in service)
820 Dame Flora Robson (not on display during December 2005)
820 Santa Claus (no longer in service) (December 2005 only)
820 The Albion Team 2001/2 (no longer in service)
821 Queen Adelaide
822 William Ainsworth
823 Mike Bamber
824 Charles Busby
825 Sir Winston Churchill
826 Harry Cowley
827 Stanley Deason
828 Charles Dickens
829 C B Fry
830 Sir Jack Hobbs
831 Sir John Howard, engineer
832 David Land
833 Andrew Melville
834 Herbert Menges
835 Cecil Pashley
836 Sir Arthur Pearson
837 Margaret Powell
838 William Stroudley
839 Stanley Theobald
839 Frank Butterworth (no longer in service)
840 Amon Wilds
840 Ian Caldwell (no longer in service)
841 Thomas Attree
842 Eugenius Birch
843 Sir John Cordy Burrows
844 Caroline of Brunswick
845 Queen Charlotte
846 Captain Frederick Collins
847 Earl of Egremont
848 Sir George Everest
849 Edwin Fownes
850 Baron Goldsmid
851 The Lawrence Sisters
852 Trevor Mann
853 William Marsh
854 David Mocatta
855 Sake Dean Mahomed
856 Dame Anna Neagle
857 Sir Richard Sackville
858 Malcolm Farley (no longer in service)
858 George Albert Smith
859 Thomas Tilling
860 Jack Tinker
861 John Vallance
862 James Williamson
863 John Wisden
864 King William IV
865 Queen Elizabeth II (no longer in service)
865 Bride & Groom (no longer in service)
865 Dusty Springfield
866 Prince Philip (no longer in service)
866 Bride & Groom (no longer in service)
866 Alan Weeks
867 Arthur H Cox
868 Syd Dean
869 Les Hamilton (no longer in service) (now on 808)
869 Rudyard Kipling
870 Gilbert Harding
871 Sir Edward Marshall-Hall
872 Captain Henry Hill
873 Sir Rowland Hill
874 Edward Lowther
875 John Rastrick
876 Arthur Wagner
881 John Nicks & Jennifer Nicks
882 Kitty O'Shea
883 Phyllis Pearsall
884 David Sheppard
887 Virginia Woolf

901 Charles Burt Brill
902 Fanny Burney
903 Douglas Byng
904 Sir John Clements
905 Rev Richard William Enraght
906 James Gray
907 Patrick Hamilton
908 Thomas Harrington
909 Trevor Kaye
910 Thomas Lainson
911 William Lillywhite
912 Mick Mannock
913 Pete McCarthy
914 Daisy Noakes
915 Dr William Parker
916 Ben Sherman
917 Sir Hans Singer
918 Rex Whistler