✅ True. In December 1952, London bus driver Albert Gunter made a split-second decision to accelerate his double-decker bus and jump across a gap created by the Tower Bridge unexpectedly opening for a ship to pass under.
On Dec. 30, 1952, a London city bus found itself in a precarious position: driving over the Tower Bridge as it opened to allow passage of a boat below. Today, the story is popular inAll the details included in this popular meme are true, as they were recorded contemporaneously in news reports. That incident wasAN INQUIRY was being held today into the opening of Tower Bridge as a bus was crossing it last night. The bridge opened as the bus was in the centre of the two sections.
A City Police inspector said that the usual warning signals were given. The superintendent engineer of the bridge said,"The bus came unnoticed onto the bridge as it was just on the move. It had sufficient speed to bridge the gap, but the rear wheels must have fallen with quite a jolt." That report appeared to have exonerated Gunter, who was hailed a hero in the press just a few months later. As
Today Gunter tells me more good news. In June he and his family will take a week's free holiday at Bournemouth hotel — the first holiday for five years. His son and daughter, aged eight and 14, are invited to the Lord Mayor's children' party in November.
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