| The model
- Best Choose released two further Fleetlines in July 2016, both
featuring D666 and both carrying Marlboro cigarette advertising. This
version is on route 105 to West Point whilst the other (180122) is on route 102 to Shau Ki Wan.
The bus
- Kowloon Motor Bus received a total of 450 Daimler/Leyland Fleetlines
between 1974 and
1979, all being 33 feet long. Bodywork was spread between MetSec, BACo
and a few with KMB's own bodywork. D666 was the first of the Fleetlines and was registered on 26th June 1974, being withdrawn on 18th November 1988. A photograph of this bus, in this livery, appears in Mike Davis's
excellent book 'Hong Kong Buses - Volume 2 - Kowloon Motor Bus'.
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