The model
- this is one of three 11-metre Volvo Olympians announced by Model
1 on 10th September 2020 and all were released just over a week later on 18th September. The others feature VA40 (63521) and VA50 (63522).
The bus
- VA39
was one of a batch of twenty air-conditioned buses purchased by
CMB in 1996 for the expansion of its Cross-harbour bus route network to
the New Territories, as well as for the service conversion to a
partially air-conditioned route. The VA class totalled 64 buses., the
last (and last bus purchased by CMB) being VA64, which entered service
in August 1998.
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