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- I’ve heard that a bus jumped over Tower Bridge? Is that true?
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- Yes it's true. At 21.35 on 30 December 1952 a crowded RT double deck bus on route 78 to Dulwich was half way across Tower Bridge when the bridge began to rise. Driver Albert Gunter slammed his foot on the accelerator and the bus leapt across the widening gap to the other side. All the passengers survived. Albert was hailed as a hero and received a £10 reward.
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- A full account of the incident by the driver is in the book "London's 1950s buses : a class album" compiled by James Whiting (2009).
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