Publications
Pride and Joy: My Amazing 25-year Journey with Brighton & Hove Buses, by Roger French, published 1 May 2010 (160 pp., London: Best Impressions, ISBN-10: 0956574009 & ISBN-13: 9780956574008) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:In 160 pages and with over 250 photographs and illustrations, Roger French OBE tells the story of the last twenty-five years of one of the UK's most successful and admired bus companies, Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company. The book explains how the company was recreated out of Southdown in 1985 and the inside story behind its privatisation as a management buy-out two years later, as well as its sale to the Go-Ahead Group in 1993. As a serving managing director who has overseen the company throughout its contemporary history for the last quarter of a century, Roger French is best placed to reveal the secrets of how Brighton & Hove has been able to achieve the holy grail of consistent passenger growth every year since 1993. The book contains a full route history over the last twenty-five years, as well as details of the intake of buses and coaches into the fleet each year. Details of the acquisition of Brighton Buses in 1997 and Stagecoach's Lewes operations in 2005 are also included.