The model
- this is another specially commissioned model for the Ba-Shi Group and
was not issued as a general release.
The bus
- the Sunwin SWB5115GP-3 trolleybus is a joint venture between Shanghai
Sunwin Bus Corporation, Shanghai Ba-Shi (Group) and Shanghai Trolleybuses
Company. It was unveiled in November 2003.
The text on the packaging reads:-
"Ba-shi Trolley Bus Company is the only company
in Shanghai that has a history of over hundred years. The first route of
Trolley car in Shanghai from Jingan Si to Shanghai Club (now
at Bund near Guangdong Rd) was put into service on March 5, 1908.
This was marked as the starting of an historical era of civic transportation
in Shanghai and even throughout China.
This product is a model of the most advanced
Trolley Bus in China, which is in service in Shanghai. This Trolley Bus
bears the hundred-year history of Shanghai public transportation." |