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Press Release 12th November 2010
cnbus 3003 Sunwin SWB6120V4LE
/ Volvo B7RLE
Shanghai Ba-Shi Erqi -Shanghai Expo Route
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The greatest ever World Expo event has now closed its doors. This was the Shanghai World Expo 2010. There were 73.08 million visitors from all over the world who took a visit to this great event in the past six months, with Saturday 16th October recording a single-day figure of 1,032,800 visitors.
Creative Master Northcord Limited is pleased to announce the similar success of its cnbus 3002 model with Expo 2010 brandings and is now proud to make the official announcement of a third Sunwin SWB6120V4LE / Volvo B7RLE model. This is cnbus 3003, a replica Shanghai Expo 2010 route 2, in service between Shanghai South Railway Station and Gate 8 at Shanghai Expo Pudong-side, in the fleet of Shanghai Ba-Shi Erqi Public Transport Company Ltd (????).
cnbus 3003 represents fleet number S2M-004B (?B?D6403). The livery is the standard one for the Shanghai Ba-Shi Group on which many Expo 2010 decorations have been applied.
These include :
Together with the previous cnbus 3002, both models are the significant memory of Shanghai Expo 2010 to all collectors. cnbus 3003 exemplifies all features on the new casting of a Volvo B7RLE with Sunwin body from the real bus. The cnbus 3000 range carries forward the family resemblance of the original cnbus 1000 range onto this new, low-floor range.Front, side and rear destinations with special Expo wording
“Haibao”, the mascot for Shanghai Expo, on the rear engine access door
On both sides, the wordings “Expo Bus ????” applied.
The Expo 2010 emblem applied to the outside of the front and rear destination glass in addition to the bodysides. The emblem, depicting the image of three people - you, me and him/her holding hands together - symbolises the big family of mankind and is inspired by the shape of the Chinese character "?" (meaning the world).
The cnbus 3003 model is limited to 636 pieces for worldwide distribution. They will be distributed by John Ayrey Die-Casts Limited (UK), Porte Publishing Company (Japan), Transit Graphics (Australia), cnmycar.com (P.R. China) and Concorde Hobby Shop (HK) respectively.
| Manufacturer of model | Creative Master Northcord Ltd | |
| Scale | 1:76 | |
| Prototype chassis | Volvo B7RLE | |
| Prototype bodywork | Sunwin SWB6120V4 | |
| Prototype length | 11.88m | |
| Fleet number | S2M-004B | |
| Registration number | - | |
| Route number | 2 | |
| Destination - front | - | |
| Quantity (total) | 636 | |
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