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38902 - Leyland Fleetline/MetSec
Kowloon Motor Bus
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The model - this model was announced at the end of September 2003 and released in Hong Kong on 2nd October 2003.

The bus - KMB 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. D803 entered service in January 1976 and was withdrawn in September 1988.
  
 Manufacturer of model  Cars Workshop
 Scale  1:76
 Prototype chassis  Leyland Fleetline CRG6-33 
 Prototype bodywork  Metal Sections
 Prototype length  10 metre
 Fleet number  D803
 Registration number  BJ 8528
 Route number  89
 Destination  Kwun Tong (Yuet Wah Street)
 Quantity  3,000
 Date released - Hong Kong  2nd October 2003

 
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Photograph of D1007 (BU3648), a Metsec Fleetline
during its time in preservation. (Unfortunately it was
scrapped in the late 1990s.) 
Courtesy of Koduck@14c
 
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