More local heroes will be commemorated on a new fleet of buses.

The Brighton and Hove Bus Company has taken delivery of 19 vehicles which it plans to name after people who have made great contributions to the city.

Those honoured will include two Brighton and Hove residents who died this year - Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson and Janet Turner.

Admiral Sir Lindsay, Lord Lieutenant for East Sussex, was involved in many local causes and was chairman of the West Pier Trust.

His name is now on the front of a gleaming new bus on the 49 route from Moulsecoomb to Portslade.

A former Stagecoach bus will be repainted in Brighton and Hove's red and cream livery and named after Janet Turner, who spent most of her life campaigning for the rights of disabled people.

She was a member of the Brighton and Hove Disabled Advisory Group and secretary of the Whitehawk Crime Forum.

Her name was put forward by people writing to Roger French, managing director of the Brighton and Hove Bus Company.

Mr French believes his is the only firm in the country that names its buses.

He said: "People do take it very seriously. It gives a human feel to the buses.

"So many bus firms these days have to be in line with a corporate head office.

"We are owned by the Go-Ahead group but they are happy to let us keep in touch with the local market.

"We have so much interest and we get so many suggestions.

"We always welcome them."

There are many more female names this time round, following complaints that the system was too male-dominated.

Of the 19 double deck vehicles, 12 are new models made by Scania and seven used to belong to Stagecoach.

They will promote Clementina Black, novelist and women's rights supporter, Millicent Fawcett, a suffragette and the first woman physician in Britain, Helen Boyle, a pioneer in the field of mental illness, and Eleanor Marx, a late 19th Century trade union activist, teacher and youngest daughter of Karl Marx.

Others to be named are Kitty O'Shea, who was the lover of the charismatic Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell (their affair took place in Hove), inventor of the A to Z street map Phyllis Pearsall, author Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Allan who lived in Hove and Dame Henrietta Barnett who designed Hampstead Garden Suburb in London and saved the famous Hampstead Heath from being developed. She lived for many years in Wish Road, Hove.

The rest of the 19 are solicitor Wynne Baxter, composer Frank Bridge, printer Eric Gill (who invented the famous Gills Sans and Perpetua fonts), minister John Nelson Goulty, footballer Jack Jenkins, cricketer David Sheppard, sportsman Ken Suttle and ice skaters John and Jennifer Nicks.

Since the scheme started in 1999 there have been about 150 named vehicles.

For a year one bore the identity of historian and journalist Adam Trimingham, marking his retirement from full-time work at The Argus.

Usually the bus firm will only accept the names of people who have passed away, but it made a special exception for Adam.

To suggest a name, write to Roger French, Brighton and Hove Bus Company, 43 Conway Street, Hove, BN3 3LT or email info@buses.co.uk.