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New pages have now been added for the two Kowloon Motor Bus Alexander bodied Mercedes-Benz O305 models featured in yesterday's news and links to these pages have now been included below.
7th November 2025

   
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The two Kowloon Motor Bus Alexander bodied Mercedes-Benz O305 models, first mentioned on 30th October, are now listed on KMB's online shop. Both feature ME1  - the first model represents the bus in service on route 101 with a destination of Kwun Tong and registered CZ6686 (KMB2025012) whilst the second represents the bus before entering service, displaying a destination of Hong Kong and a registration of 'Alexander' (KMB2025013). No other details are currently known and new pages, with further photographs, will be added tomorrow.
6th November 2025

   
   
Today marks the 27th anniversary of this website.

To mark the occasion, I decided to experiment with Google Gemini with a view to creating an appropriate image, and here are a couple that I am fairly pleased with. The first is based on a photograph of a model with a few additional touches whilst the second 
is a fairly simple modification to my OMB logo My special thanks to Joe of Jotus.com for designing the above image.    
     
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I remain extremely grateful to everyone who has contributed over the past 27 years and thank you all for your continued support.
   
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And here is my very first Hong Kong model bus
   
In addition to the above AI images, a few others were also 'created' and I have added these to a new page in the XTRA section of the site - just follow this link.
   
5th November 2025

 
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The two remaining Kowloon Motor Bus part open-top Enviro500s, first announced on 16th October, have been released today.
 
ATENU521 (TK4304) carries a cream and red livery and is on route HK1 with a destinat
ion of Tsim Sha Tsui - Wong Tai Sin (KMB2025154) whilst the white liveried example features ATENU522 (TK4426), also on route HK1 with a destination of KMB Tour HK (KMB2025155). Each is limited to 1,000 pieces.
1st November 2025
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