"Mind your head when standing up" a sign above the rear seats used to warn passengers on buses of yesteryear but most people only remembered the warning as they rubbed their heads to ease the pain of the impact of metal against skin.

While the days of such mild discomfort are long gone, there is still reason for head-scratching if, while waiting for the bus, you try to guess what famous name will be on display when it arrives, as I do.

Visiting Steyning Museum, I was delighted to find two potentially ideal bus names.

There is a display featuring two of Steyning's most well-known residents, Elsie and Doris Waters. They became famous as Gert and Daisy and many of their costumes, photographs and so on are there to see.

They were the first female comedy double-act to hit the big time in the Forties and Fifties, becoming Great British institutions on radio, films, music hall and several dozen 78 rpm records.

Born within the sound of Bow Bells, they were as English as Sunday roast and Yorkshire pudding and, off-stage, were as ordinary as the Gert and Daisy characters they played, just the sort of people you might meet waiting at any bus stop.

If only the famous names on the buses could be accompanied by a picture, how nice that would be.

-Michael Parker, Brighton