Names on the buses

 729 George Tongue

Connections with Brighton and Hove : George Robert Walesby Tongue began as a conductor on the first horse-bus operated by Brighton Hove & Preston United Omnibus Company in 1902. Although London had horse buses since 1829, the Brighton horse bus service had been proposed in 1838 and it ran for the first time in May 1840 and in 1884 the various horse bus services were amalgamated into the Brighton, Hove and Preston Company. The company introduced its first motor bus, a Miles Daimler, in December 1903 with the service starting on January 1st 1904, one of the first in the UK. George took engineering lessons and became a driver of the second motor-bus to run locally. In 1916 he became an engineer at the Hove, Conway Street Garage and was eventually appointed Chief Engineer for the Thomas Tilling Company, later Brighton, Hove & District buses, at the bus garage in Montague Place, Brighton.

729 ADL Enviro400 carried name since delivery in March 2024, on Coaster.