Think of Sussex Buses and almost automatically that means
Southdown: think of locations and that means Brighton. Well, you
will find plenty of pictures of both within these pages, but there
is much more besides. Although Southdown was far and away the
biggest cheese in Sussex, three other BET concerns, Aldershot and
District, Maidstone and District and East Kent, worked into the
county, as did London Transport. Trams operated beside the seaside
in Brighton and Hastings, their systems and the little four-wheel
cars which operated them being replaced by almost silent,
streamlined (well perhaps not the early Hastings ones) trolleybuses
in the 1930s. Eastbourne was the world's first municipality to
operate motorbuses - applause please. Brighton, ah, Brighton
deserves a new chapter. Not only did Brighton Corporation operate
trams, then trolleybuses and motor buses, but the town was also
served by Thomas Tilling's Brighton and Hove and District which was
eventually swallowed up by Southdown. In NBC days, the Corporation
misguidedly adopted a pale blue livery, which like the NBC green
did not wear very well. Privatisation saw the emergence of the
Brighton, Hove Bus and Coach Company which would by the mid first
decade of the 21st century become the jewel in the crown that
Southdown had once assumed. With routes spreading far beyond the
City of Brighton and Hove, some of them once operated by Southdown,
notably to Lewes, Tunbridge Wells, and Eastbourne, a livery of
basically red and pale cream and thus recalling days gone by, but
designed by Ray Stenning's Best Impressions and thus totally of the
21st century, buses named after notable Brighton inhabitants,
ranging from world famous statesmen and stars of stage, screen and
radio, to good men and women who have improved in various ways the
lives of their fellow citizens, all part of an imaginative
publicity drive which has seen the graph of the growth of bus
travel in the city climb steadily and reap a number of well
deserved awards.
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