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Read more: https://www.towerbridge.org.uk/discover/history/historical-feats
TIL in 1952, a bus driver (Albert Gunter) was driving over Tower Bridge, when to his surprise, the bridge started opening. The double – decker bus was at the edge of the south bascule when it started rising. He made a split decision and accelerated clearing the 6ft drop. Later receiving a £10 bonus
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About £287 pounds in today’s dollars. How is that enough? He probably saved lives!
How the operator didn’t see a massive double-decker bus smack in the middle of the bridge is another story i’d like to hear
Saved a bus full of peoples lives and the bus itself , bosses decide £10 is definitely enough compensation. Pffft.
Wait. That is real? I thought that was just a meme
And on a special episode of “The Dukes of Hazzard”, the Duke boys travel to London.
A day off work, for a broken leg. Huh.