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BOAC half-bus to Kai Tak from the Peninsula Hotel

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BOAC half-bus to Kai Tak from the Peninsula Hotel
Submitted by IDJ
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IDJ
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bus
BOAC
Kai Tak Airport
commer commando one-and-a-half-deck bus

This BOAC bus is parked outside the Peninsula Hotel on what is now a very busy corner.

The hotel had run its own bus before WW2 for various airlines denoting which one by hanging appropriate signboards on its outside. No pictures of one have yet emerged, although there is a newsprint clipping announcing its arrival in HK in the late 1930s.

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Wednesday, June 15, 1949
Gallery: 
1940s Hong Kong
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Submitted by Stanley Lai on Thu, 2019-03-21 16:59.

This BOAC bus is Commer's "Commando Crew Bus XAT368".

Submitted by moddsey on Fri, 2019-03-22 08:11.

The captioned bus that is mentioned in the last posting with registration XAT 368 can be viewed here

Submitted by MartinI on Fri, 2021-06-18 17:20.

The 1937 bus is illustrated here - with Imperial Airways as it was back then.

Page 109 | 13th January 1939 | The Commercial Motor Archive

Submitted by IDJ on Sun, 2021-06-20 17:02.

The ‘Commercial Motors’ image also appears in the book ‘Hong Kong Buses Volume Two’ by Mike Davis, probably from the same source. also see more info on this image at https://gwulo.com/atom/24307

For subsequent discussions on the ‘BOAC coach outside the Peninsula Hotel’ image search Gwulo on airport coaches or airport buses.