For Mr Curtis

摘要

When Buses readers ponder what prompted their lifelong fascination with double-and single-deckers, many suspect that something traumatic must have happened in early childhood. The man forever associated with London Transport and the Routemaster was convinced that his most definitely began with a close encounter of the wrong kind.Colin Hartley Curtis was born in Brighton on 21 July 1926 and when he was seven he accidentally rode his bicycle into a Thomas Tilling double-deck AEC Regent-he remembered the fleetnumber-forcing him to spend several weeks recovering in hospital.