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Registered
just two days ago
is 11.3 metre Citybus Alexander Dennis 'facelift' Enviro500 41118
(ZF2539), noted today operating route 90 to Ap Lei Chau.
27th
April
2024
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My
thanks to 80M Bus
Model Shop for confirming all four models are now on sale and
also for providing details and photographs of all four.
Below is a
sample photograph of each model and I hope to add new pages and further
photographs later today (now added).
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80M Bus Model
Shop
Kowloon Motor Bus 1/76
scale Wrights Explorer bodied Volvo B10TL AVW92 (LZ8705) is on
route 79K to Sheung Shui. It is limited to 750 pieces (KMB2023014).
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80M Bus Model
Shop
Kowloon Motor Bus 1/76
scale Wrights Explorer bodied Volvo B10TL AVW56
(LP2416) is on route 69X to Tin Shui. It is also limited to
750 pieces (KMB2023015).
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80M Bus Model
Shop
Kowloon Motor Bus
1/43 scale 12.8 metre ADL 'facelift' Enviro500 featuring 3ATENU103
(UF4295) with a
destination of Tseung Kwan O (Choi Ming) and is limited to 850
pieces (KMB2023026).
Kowloon
Motor Bus Metal Sections bodied Daimler
'A' HK4013, which is on route 2E to Kowloon
City Ferry and is limited to 800 pieces (KMB2023027)
Congratulations
to Jacky at MSD Bus
as he celebrates his 20th anniversary and to mark the occasion he has
commissioned a special limited edition 11 metre Dennis Condor model, as
shown below.
20th
April
2024
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Three
of the four
models mentioned below appear to have been released today and, with the
assistance of members of the My Bus Model Facebook group, I have been
able to glean the following information.
The
1/43 scale ADL 'facelift Enviro500 features 3ATENU103 (UF4295) with a
destination of Tseung Kwan O (Choi Ming) and is limited to 850
pieces
The two
1/76 scale Wrights Explorer bodied Volvo B10TLs are each limited to 750
pieces and are 80M Bus Model products. AVW92 (LZ8705) is on
route 79K to Sheung Shui (KMB2023014) and AVW56
(LP2416) is on route 69X to Tin Shui (KMB2023015) - my thanks
to James Fung for providing the product codes.
The release of the 1/43 scale Daimler is still awaited.
If you are able to provide further details, please e-mail me.
According
to this week's Bus and Coach Week, Kowloon Motor Bus is applying the
retro livery to its final batches of new diesel buses.
19th April
2024
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Kowloon
Motor Bus has
today announced a number of new models and detailed below are the 1/76
and 1/43 scale examples. In addition there are a number of 1/120,
1/110, and 1/64 models.
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Kowloon Motor Bus
The
two 1/76 scale models both feature a Wrights Explorer bodied Volvo
B10TL. AVW92 (LZ8705) is on route 79K to Sheung Shui whilst the second
features AVW56 (LP2416) and is on route 69X to Tin Shui.
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Kowloon Motor Bus
The
two 1/43 scale models feature Metal Sections bodied Daimler
'A' HK4013, which is on route 2E to Kowloon
City Ferry
and an unidentified 12.8 metre Alexander Dennis 'facelift' Enviro500,
which is on route 290A.
17th April
2024
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© KH Chui
My
thanks to Keith
Wood and KH Chui for allowing me to share the
above photographs, which feature two
former Hong Kong buses. Both
participated in yesterday's London Bus Museum Spring
Gathering, which was
held at Brooklands Museum. Dave Rogers took along his former Citybus
Leyland Olympian 152, which, as is always the case with Dave's buses,
looked immaculate. Ensignbus exhibited the former Kowloon
Motor Bus
Wrights StreetDeck, W6S1.
15th April
2024
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Preserved
New World First Bus Volvo Super Olympian 5102 took part in the Thai
Songkran event in Kowloon City yesterday.
Disneyland all-over
advertising has been applied to Citybus Enviro500s 8218 (RL5493) and
5550 (RK4924).
14th April
2024
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Kowloon
Motor Bus has applied 'Green is Good' all over advertising to
BYD
double-decker BED23 (YX6462) as the company celebrates its 91st
anniversary.
11th April
2024
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These two
photographs, featuring buses at Shek-O Bus Terminus, have just been
added to the Shek-O
Bus Terminus page
in the XTRA
section
of the site. My thanks to Donald
MacRae
for allowing me to share the first photograph, which features China
Motor Bus Metal Sections bodied Guy Arab LS38 and is believed to have
been taken in 1983. The second photograph arrived today and features
New World First Bus Leyland Victory Mk2 LV12. The original photographer
is unknown and I am guessing it is dated either 1999 or 2000.
1st April
2024
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© Philip Chan
The
liquidator is selling off the remaining stock from Concorde
Hobby Shop over the next few days.
Kowloon
Motor Bus has recently deployed BYD double-deck electric buses
on
cross harbour tunnel routes and BED18 (ZB962) was noted
operating
route 112 yesterday.
Kowloon
Motor Bus MCV
Evolution bodied Volvo B7RLE AVC41 (RD7861) has joined the Sun Bus
fleet and was spotted on route 331 this afternoon at Tsuen Wan MTR
station.
1st April
2024
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