Cambs Schools Name County Gritters

Spread Sheeran, Stephen Thawking and Buzz Ice Year are some of the gritter names chosen by pupils.

Cambridgeshire Highways’ fleet of 37 gritters have been given fresh new names by pupils around Cambridgeshire who took part in the ‘name the gritters’ competition this autumn.

In October, Cambridgeshire Highways revealed Scotty’s Little Salt Soldier was joining the gritting crew, named after the local charity Scotty's Little Soldiers – which supports children across the UK who have lost a parent who served in the British Armed Forces. Following this, a county wide competition was launched in all primary schools to rename the rest of the fleet, as part of the County Council’s road safety work with schools.

In total, Cambridgeshire Highways received over 600 name suggestions from around 70 schools and the judges – three road safety officers - had the hard task to choose the 36 winning names.

The full list of winning names are:

Fenland (7)
Buzz Ice Year
Sheriff of Grittingham
Grit King
Grunty
Grityanna Jones and the Temple of Salt
Alfred the Gritter
Mr Snow Stopper
 

East (9)
Cool Gritannia
Alexander the Grit
The Mighty Thaw
Snow Chance
Grittingdon Bear
Hello Gritty
Captain Frosty
Sir Ice –ac-Newton
Stephen THAWking
 

South (10)
Snow Way Hozay
Snow Be Gone Kenobi
Meltasaurus Rex
Salt-anna
David Grittenborough
Grit the Road Jack
Gritty McMelterson
Benjamin Gritten
Bear Grits
Spread Sheeran
 

Huntingdonshire (10)
Jack DeFrost
Maximus Grittus
Lord Saltimort
Jodie Grittacker       
Grand Master Gritter
Snow Joke
Oliver Gritwell
No slip the Grit
Father Gritter

The lucky winners will be invited to the official naming ceremonies which will take place at the County Council highways depots in January. They will also receive a road safety goodie bag and a picture with their named gritter.