| The model -
announced only five days before its release on 27th May 2013,
this AEC Regent is the first release of this casting since
September 2001. It comes with a diorama.
The bus
- KMB
introduced 210 AEC Regent Mk V buses into its fleet between 1963
and 1966 to cater for increasing demand due to the rapid growth in
population at that time. The bus was unprecedented at that
time in terms of body length (34 feet) and passenger capacity
(117 passengers). Three yellow bands on the front panel of the bus
denoted the introduction of one conductor scheme of the 1970s
whereby one seated conductor replaced the three roving conductors
and changed the passengers' habit to boarding the bus at the front.
These buses was deployed mainly on the busiest routes
in the Kowloon Peninsula, such as 5, 6, 6B 6C, 6D and 11.
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