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Oriental Buses
in the UK ... Ex-Citybus Leyland Victory Mk 2 tow truck No. 05 arrives in the UK - February 2019 |
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Oriental Buses
in the UK ... Ex-Citybus Leyland Victory Mk 2 tow truck No. 05 arrives in the UK - February 2019 |
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Dave
Rogers, the UK's leading preservationist of Hong Kong buses,
announced on 28th February 2019 that he had
acquired former Citybus Leyland Victory Mk 2 converted tow truck No. 05 (GU 9585). |
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taken at Southampton Docks Courtesy and copyright of Dave Rogers, |
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The above photographs show the vehicle boarding the vessel "Morning Lena" on 15th December 2018 which travelled via Korea, Egypt, Greece. Italy, Tunisia, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden and Germany before arriving in Southampton Docks on 26th February 2019. All the above
photographs are courtesy and
copyright of Terence Tong.
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This vehicle began it's life as a double-deck bus with New Lantao Bus and was first registered on 3rd July 1981, being allocated fleet no. LD4 and registered CN 9992. It was one of four such vehicles delivered new to the company between May and September 1981. She received the standard red/yellow livery. |
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 In August 1993 she was one of ten Leyland Victory Mk2s that were sold to Citybus and she became fleet no.38. It is believed that she was retired 1n 1997, along with the remaining Leyland Victory Mk 2s. Four of these vehicles were converted for engineering use - No. 36 (CN2611) became a tree-lopping vehicle whilst the others, Nos. 38, 44 and 45 became tow trucks.
 A resin model
of the converted vehicle in Citybus livery was released back
in 2002
click on the image to visit the model page. |
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| The China Motor Bus
Memorial Page features an excellent article and photographs
- just follow this link |
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