Here’s a fun article with a few more gritter names, amongst my favourites are
Roger Spreaderer
Itsy Bitsy Teeney Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney
Nicole Saltslinger
That is brilliant, such humour, and it reminds me of when I was a little boy and an avid reader of comics. One of them had a recurring picture story sponsored by Wall’s Sausages and Ice Cream and each week somewhere in the story there was a little boy on the side of the road giving ‘the lucky Wall’s sign’ to a passing lorry driver. So it became quite the thing if you lived near a main road, as I did, to give the sign to any Wall’s lorry spotted and the driver would return it with a smile while steering his lorry with his elbows.
I think it was discouraged after a while, a bit like the saluting AA motorbike riders.
BTW, if you need to know, the lucky Wall’s sign is formed by the thumbs and index fingers of both hands.