Quantities of this model have appeared in the UK, and indeed the model was included in Corgi's "Millennium" Catalogue, giving a release date of November 1999.

The bus - AV405 is one of a batch of over 500 11-metre air-conditioned Volvo Olympians which entered service with KMB between 1994 and September 1998. This particular vehicle entered service on 10th March 1998.

History of the Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat) Festival

The Tuen Ng Festival is one of the oldest of Cantonese festivals, held to commemorate the Chinese hero Ch'u Yuen, an advisor to the king who committed suicide by jumping in a river in Hunan Province and drowning, in protest against a corrupt third century-BC government. The local people tried to save him in their boats, while others threw rice dumplings into the water to feed the fish that would otherwise have eaten his body.

Today the festival is celebrated in June (fifth day of the fifth moon) with noisy dragon boat races, narrow rowing boats with a dragon's head and tail - throughout the territory, whilst rice dumplings are eaten too. The boats are crewed by anything up to eighty people (though most are smaller), the oarstrokes set by a drummer, and the races are accompanied by cymbals and watched from scores of junks and launches. Races take place in many places, particularly on the Sha Tin waterfront, where it has become a major spectacle. There are races too at Tai Po, Stanley, Aberdeen and Yau Ma Tei. Since 1976 there has been an annual International Dragon Boat Race, with teams from all over the world competing.