Northcord Transport continue to publish
excellent Yearbooks, and this years edition is no different, brimming with
excellent quality photographs. As is the norm, the majority of the text
is in Chinese, however there are two articles written in both English and
Chinese.
Tin Yau Lee, a regular contributor to the
site, has kindly given a translation for each of the features in the book,
with the title shown in red with the starting page
number shown in brackets.
From the Editor-
Life in Two Cities (p7)
NWFB Tseung Kwan
O New Routes (p8)
New routes introduced by New World First
Bus in 2001
A first step of
NLB buses in Urban (p12)
New Buses with
Familiar Faces (p14)
The 2nd Spring
for Contravision (p18)
All-over advertising
buses
Multi-Media On
Board (p22)
-Roadshow & M-Channel TV monitors on
buses
Another Green Revolution
(p24)
New environmently
friendly buses, featuring KMB's green Centroliners and Tridents
New Members for
Huang Gang and Discovery Bay (p39)
MAN/Caetano single deck buses
A Number of "New
Buses" (p45)
Ex-CMB vehicles acquired
by Citybus including 1041, 1042 and 1355
10.6m Super Olympian
on Stage (p51)
KMB's ASV class (Short Super Olympians)
My Private Tour
of Volvo B12 (p59)
Looking back over
Citybus's five Citybus Volvo B10Ms with Jonckheere bodywork, this article
looks back over their time in service
New Star of Citybus-
Scania Super Low Floor Bus (p67)
Citybus's new Scania Volgren, plus the new
Citybus livery
Island Circular
Routes (p75)
Last Moment
(p82)
KMB buses nearing
the end of the life
Farewell Dominator
(p88)
a last look at KMB's
Dennis Dominators
Historical Mission
Completed (p91)
Light Bus Now,
Better than Past (p95)
Public Light Vehicles in Hong Kong
Mobile Beautiful
Scenery Routes in Shanghai (p110)
the new Volvo B7R with Shanghai Sunwin Bus
Corporation bodywork
New Era for Shanghai
Public Buses (p120)
Launching of Tridents
in Singapore (p128)
SBS Transit- A
New Name of SBS (p136)
The launch of SBS Transit
Rebuilt of Citybus
#102- Part II (p141)
Citybus Olympian 102
becomes C51 - article by Dave Rogers, owner of this impressive double deck
coach, which details the change in appearance (in English)
Searching Ex-Hong
Kong Buses in UK (p144)
Hong Kong Bus Spotting in England
- From LV36, which is of course in Scotland, to ex-Citybus Dennis Darts
in Basingstoke and ML's in London (in English)
Coming Back from
Singapore (p152)
Ex Singapore Volvo
Olympians in the UK
Production of Model
Buses (p154)
Table of Hong Kong
Bus Routes (p158)
Buses Withdrawn
in 2001 (p162)
New Registrated
Buses in 2001 (p165)
Changes of Bus
Routes in 2001 (p169)
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